Nehemiah 9:17

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’ ”

For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”

“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,

When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’ ”

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;

because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.

For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!” ’

to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.