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8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.
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The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.
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He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
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he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him.
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For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
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as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
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As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
14 For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.
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for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
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The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;
16 When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, And its place acknowledges it no longer.
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the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
17 But the lovingkindness of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children's children,
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But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children—
18 To those who keep His covenant And remember His precepts to do them.
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with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
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