Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 103:8
8The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love.
Psalms 103:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
Context of Psalms 103:8
6The Lord executes acts of righteousness and justice for all the oppressed. 7He revealed his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel. The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love. 9He will not always accuse us or be angry forever. 10He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve or repaid us according to our iniquities.
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רַח֣וּם וְחַנּ֣וּן יְהוָ֑ה אֶ֖רֶךְ אַפַּ֣יִם וְרַב־חָֽסֶד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 103:8
- Psalms 86:5For you, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive, abounding in faithful love to all who call on you.
- Psalms 130:7Israel, put your hope in the Lord. For there is faithful love with the Lord, and with him is redemption in abundance.
- Psalms 145:8The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in faithful love.
- Exodus 34:6The Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed: The Lord — the Lord is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth,
- Numbers 14:18The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in faithful love, forgiving iniquity and rebellion. But he will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generation.
- Deuteronomy 5:10but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commands.
- Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love, and you did not abandon them.
- Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
- Jeremiah 32:18You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of Armies,
- Romans 5:20The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more
- Ephesians 1:7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
- Joel 2:13Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.
- Jonah 4:2He prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.
- Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath his feet.
Commentaries on Psalms 103:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8The Lord is merciful - See the note on Psalm 86:15.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8The Lord is merciful and gracious - See the notes at Psalm 78:38. The idea here is derived evidently from Exodus 34:6-7 - that great and glorious statement of God himself in regard to his own character. Our world is a different world under that statement from what it would be if that and kindred declarations had not been made. There is here a “progression” of thought; an “advance” on the previous statements. At first the psalmist referred to his own…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-14Verses 6-14 Truly God is good to all: he is in a special manner good to Israel. He has revealed himself and his grace to them. By his ways we may understand his precepts, the ways he requires us to walk in; and his promises and purposes. He always has been full of compassion. How unlike are those to God, who take every occasion to chide, and never know when to cease! What would become of us, if God should deal so with us? The Scripture says a great deal…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8The Lord revealed himself to Moses in special ways to strengthen his relationship with his people (see Exodus 34:6–7; Numbers 14:18).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-108-10. God's benevolence implies no merit. He shows it to sinners, who also are chastened for a time (Ex 34:6). keep (anger)--in Le 19:18, bear a grudge (Jr 3:5, 12).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 103
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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