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

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You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
    abounding in love(A) to all who call to you.

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He has (A)caused his wondrous works to be remembered;
    the Lord is gracious and merciful.

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He has caused his wonders to be remembered;
    the Lord is gracious and compassionate.(A)

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Light dawns in the darkness (A)for the upright;
    he is gracious, merciful, and (B)righteous.

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Even in darkness light dawns(A) for the upright,
    for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.(B)

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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.’

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18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion.(A) Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’(B)

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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

17 They refused to listen and failed to remember(A) the miracles(B) you performed among them. They became stiff-necked(C) and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery.(D) But you are a forgiving God,(E) gracious and compassionate,(F) slow to anger(G) and abounding in love.(H) Therefore you did not desert them,(I)

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And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? (A)That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a (B)gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and (C)relenting from disaster.

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He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew(A) that you are a gracious(B) and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love,(C) a God who relents(D) from sending calamity.(E)

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12     and that to you, O Lord, (A)belongs steadfast love.
For you will (B)render to a man
    according to his work.

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12     and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”;(A)
and, “You reward everyone
    according to what they have done.”(B)

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