Exodus 34:6-7
6The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, a“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and bgracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast clove and faithfulness, 7 dkeeping steadfast love for thousands, ▼▼Or to the thousandth generation
fforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but gwho will by no means clear the guilty, hvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Job 33:27-28
27He sings before men and says:‘I isinned and perverted what was right,
and it was not repaid to me.
28He has redeemed my jsoul from going down kinto the pit,
and my life shall llook upon the light.’
Psalms 147:11
11but the Lord mtakes pleasure in those who fear him,in those who nhope in his steadfast love.
Jeremiah 31:20
20 oIs Ephraim my dear son?pIs he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
qTherefore my heart ▼
▼Hebrew bowels
yearns for him;I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.
Micah 7:18
God’s Steadfast Love and Compassion
18 sWho is a God like you, tpardoning iniquityand passing over transgression
ufor the remnant of his inheritance?
vHe does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
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