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Psalm 116:5 The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.
Psalm 116:5
New International Version
The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

New Living Translation
How kind the LORD is! How good he is! So merciful, this God of ours!

English Standard Version
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

King James Bible
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

New King James Version
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful.

New American Standard Bible
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate.

NASB 1995
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate.

NASB 1977
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate.

Legacy Standard Bible
Gracious is Yahweh, and righteous; And our God is compassionate.

Amplified Bible
Gracious is the LORD, and [consistently] righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is compassionate.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is compassionate.

American Standard Version
Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous; Yea, our God is merciful.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You are merciful, LORD JEHOVAH, and righteous, and oh, God, you are compassionate!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The Lord is merciful and righteous; yea, our God has pity.

Contemporary English Version
You are kind, LORD, so good and merciful.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.

English Revised Version
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD is merciful and righteous. Our God is compassionate.

Good News Translation
The LORD is merciful and good; our God is compassionate.

International Standard Version
The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is compassionate;

JPS Tanakh 1917
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yea, our God is compassionate.

Literal Standard Version
YHWH [is] gracious, and righteous, | Indeed, our God [is] merciful,

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

New American Bible
Gracious is the LORD and righteous; yes, our God is merciful.

NET Bible
The LORD is merciful and fair; our God is compassionate.

New Revised Standard Version
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Webster's Bible Translation
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yes, our God is merciful.

World English Bible
Yahweh is gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Young's Literal Translation
Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous, Yea, our God is merciful,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The LORD Has Heard My Voice
4Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!” 5The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. 6The LORD preserves the simplehearted; I was helpless, and He saved me.…

Cross References
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,

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.

Ezra 9:15
O LORD, God of Israel, You are righteous! For we remain this day as a remnant. Here we are before You in our guilt, though because of it no one can stand before You."

Nehemiah 9:8
You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites--to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

Psalm 86:15
But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

Psalm 103:8
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

Psalm 119:137
Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.


Treasury of Scripture

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yes, our God is merciful.

gracious

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 103:8
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Psalm 112:4
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

and righteous

Psalm 119:137
TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

Psalm 145:4-7,17
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts…

Ezra 9:15
O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

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Psalm 116
1. The psalmist professes his love and duty to God for his deliverance
12. He studies to be thankful














Verse 5. - Gracious is the Lord, and righteous. God's answers to prayer show him to be both "gracious" and "righteous" - gracious, because it is of his mercy that he listens to men; righteous, because, having promised to hear prayer, he is bound to keep his promises. Yea, our God is merciful; or, "compassionate."

Parallel Commentaries ...


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

is gracious
חַנּ֣וּן (ḥan·nūn)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2587: Gracious

and righteous;
וְצַדִּ֑יק (wə·ṣad·dîq)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6662: Just, righteous

our God
וֵ֖אלֹהֵ֣ינוּ (wê·lō·hê·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

is full of compassion.
מְרַחֵֽם׃ (mə·ra·ḥêm)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7355: To fondle, to love, to compassionate


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