Psalm 103:8
New International Version
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

New Living Translation
The LORD is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.

English Standard Version
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

King James Bible
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

New King James Version
The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in mercy.

NASB 1995
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

NASB 1977
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Amplified Bible
The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in compassion and lovingkindness.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and rich in faithful love.

American Standard Version
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH is compassionate and cherishing; he is patient and his grace is abundant.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, long-suffering, and full of mercy.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is merciful! He is kind and patient, and his love never fails.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy.

English Revised Version
The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD is compassionate, merciful, patient, and always ready to forgive.

Good News Translation
The LORD is merciful and loving, slow to become angry and full of constant love.

International Standard Version
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, patient, and abundantly rich in gracious love.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Literal Standard Version
YHWH [is] merciful and gracious, | Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

New American Bible
Merciful and gracious is the LORD, slow to anger, abounding in mercy.

NET Bible
The LORD is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

World English Bible
Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Young's Literal Translation
Merciful and gracious is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Bless the LORD, O My Soul
7He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel. 8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. 9He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.…

Cross References
James 5:11
See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Exodus 34:6
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

Numbers 14:18
The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.'

Deuteronomy 4:31
For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.

2 Samuel 12:20
Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.

Nehemiah 9:17
They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

Psalm 62:12
and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.


Treasury of Scripture

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

merciful

Psalm 86:5,15
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee…

Psalm 130:7
Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

Psalm 145:8
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

slow

Joel 2:13
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Jonah 4:2
And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

Nahum 1:3
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

plenteous in mercy.

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Psalm 103
1. An exhortation to bless God for his mercy
5. And for the constancy thereof














(8) Merciful and Gracious.--The original confession (Exodus 34:6) had become a formula of the national faith. In addition to the marginal references, see Joel 2:13, Psalm 145:8.

Verse 8. - The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. This was a part of the revelation made to Moses (Exodus 34:6), whose words the psalmist closely echoes, both here and in Psalm 86:15 (comp. also Psalm 111:4; Psalm 112:4; Psalm 145:8).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The LORD
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

is compassionate
רַח֣וּם (ra·ḥūm)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7349: Compassionate

and gracious,
וְחַנּ֣וּן (wə·ḥan·nūn)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2587: Gracious

slow
אֶ֖רֶךְ (’e·reḵ)
Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's 750: Long

to anger,
אַפַּ֣יִם (’ap·pa·yim)
Noun - md
Strong's 639: The nose, nostril, the face, a person, ire

abounding
וְרַב־ (wə·raḇ-)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

in loving devotion.
חָֽסֶד׃ (ḥā·seḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2617: Kindness, piety, reproof, beauty


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