Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The Lord is gracious and merciful;
Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.

King James Version

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Holman Bible

The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in faithful love.

International Standard Version

Gracious and merciful is the LORD, slow to become angry, and overflowing with gracious love.

A Conservative Version

LORD is gracious, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

American Standard Version

Jehovah is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.

Amplified


The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Darby Translation

Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah is compassionate and merciful; slow to anger, and great of mercy.

King James 2000

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh [is] gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger} and great in loyal love.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah is gracious and full of pity; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD is gracious and merciful, long-suffering and of great goodness.

NET Bible

The Lord is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

The Emphasized Bible

Gracious and compassionate, is Yahweh, - slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.

Webster

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

World English Bible

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

Youngs Literal Translation

Gracious and merciful is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Psalm 145:8

References

Prayers for Psalm 145:8

Context Readings

Praising God's Greatness

7 They will eagerly utter the memory of your great goodness and will shout joyfully of your righteousness. 8 The Lord is gracious and merciful;
Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.
9 Jehovah is good to all and his mercies are over all his works.

Cross References

Numbers 14:18

Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation.

Psalm 86:5

You, O Jehovah, are good and forgiving, full of loving kindness toward everyone who calls out to you.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Jehovah, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.

Exodus 34:6-7

Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.

Psalm 100:5

For Jehovah is good. His loving kindness is everlasting and his truth endures to all generations.

Psalm 103:8

Jehovah is merciful and gracious. He is slow to anger, and rich in loving-kindness.

Psalm 116:5

Jehovah is gracious and righteous. Our God is compassionate (merciful).

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to Jehovah: I pray to you, O Jehovah, was this what I said, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish. Because I knew that you are a gracious God. You are merciful, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness, and one who takes pity over calamity (tragedy) (catastrophe) (disaster).

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love).

Daniel 9:9

To Jehovah our God belong mercies and forgiveness. We have rebelled against him.

Romans 5:20-21

The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.

Ephesians 1:6

This is to the praise of the glory of his kindness, with which he freely honored us, the loved ones.

Ephesians 1:8

He made this undeserved kindness abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence (insight).

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

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