17 They refused to obey (A)and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.[a] But you are a God ready to forgive, (B)gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:17 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their slavery

13     and (A)rend your hearts and not (B)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
    (C)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
    (D)and he relents over disaster.

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For you, O Lord, are good and (A)forgiving,
    (B)abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

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The Lord is (A)gracious and merciful,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
The Lord is (B)good to all,
    and his mercy is over all that he has made.

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15 But you, O Lord, are a God (A)merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

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God's Steadfast Love and Compassion

18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
    and passing over transgression
    (C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in steadfast love.
19 He will (E)again have compassion on us;
    (F)he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
(G)You will cast all our[a] sins
    into the depths of the sea.

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  1. Micah 7:19 Hebrew their

15 For he says to Moses, (A)“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

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(A)Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember (B)the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 10 Or (C)the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 11 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? (D)Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
(A)For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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The Lord is (A)merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
(B)He will not always chide,
    nor will he (C)keep his anger forever.
10 He does not deal with us (D)according to our sins,
    nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For (E)as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his (F)steadfast love toward (G)those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
    so far does he (H)remove our transgressions from us.
13 As (I)a father shows compassion to his children,
    so the Lord shows compassion (J)to those who fear him.
14 For he knows our frame;[a]
    he (K)remembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like (L)grass;
    he flourishes like (M)a flower of the field;
16 for (N)the wind passes over it, and (O)it is gone,
    and (P)its place knows it no more.
17 But (Q)the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on (R)those who fear him,
    and his righteousness to (S)children's children,
18 to those who (T)keep his covenant
    and (U)remember to do his commandments.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 103:14 Or knows how we are formed

38 Yet he, being (A)compassionate,
    (B)atoned for their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
    and did not stir up all his wrath.

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13 And (A)I will dwell among the children of Israel (B)and will not forsake my people Israel.”

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18 (A)‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, (B)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ 19 Please (C)pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just (D)as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”

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