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- Chapter 145
- Verse 8
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
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Gill's Exposition
The Lord is gracious,.... These are the epithets of our Lord Jesus Christ, and may be truly and with great propriety said of him; he is "gracious", kind, and good, in the instances before mentioned;…
Barnes' Notes
The Lord is gracious - See Psa 86:5, note; Psa 86:15, note. And full of compassion - Kind; compassionate; ready to do good. See the notes at Psa 103:8. Slow to anger - See Psa 103:8, where the same…
The entitling of this David's psalm of praise may intimate not only that he was the penman of it, but that he took a particular pleasure in it and sung it often; it was his companion wherever he went.…
Cambridge Bible
Taken almost verbatim from Exo 34:6, Jehovah's great revelation of Himself as a God of condescending grace and infinite compassion, Whose Will is love, and Whose wrath is only manifested in the last…
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