2 Tawarikh 6:21

6:21 Respond to the requests of your servant and your people Israel for this place. ¹  Hear from your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably and forgive. ² 

Mazmur 103:8-13

103:8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful;

he is patient ³  and demonstrates great loyal love. ⁴ 

103:9 He does not always accuse,

and does not stay angry. ⁵ 

103:10 He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; ⁶ 

he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve. ⁷ 

103:11 For as the skies are high above the earth,

so his loyal love towers ⁸  over his faithful followers. ⁹ 

103:12 As far as the eastern horizon ¹⁰  is from the west, ¹¹ 

so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions ¹²  from us.

103:13 As a father has compassion on his children, ¹³ 

so the Lord has compassion on his faithful followers. ¹⁴ 

[6:21]  ¹ tn Heb “listen to the requests of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

[6:21]  ² tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

[103:8]  ³ tn Heb “slow to anger” (see Ps 86:15).

[103:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Ps 86:15).

[103:9]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew verb נָטַר (natar) is usually taken to mean “to keep; to guard,” with “anger” being understood by ellipsis. The idiom “to guard anger” is then understood to mean “to remain angry” (see Lev 19:18; Jer 3:5, 12; Nah 1:2). However, it is possible that this is a homonymic root meaning “to be angry” (see HALOT 695 s.v. נטר).

[103:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “not according to our sins does he do to us.”

[103:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and not according to our misdeeds does he repay us.”

[103:11]  ⁸ tn For this sense of the verb גָבַר (gavar), see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.

[103:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[103:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sunrise.”

[103:12]  ¹¹ tn Or “sunset.”

[103:12]  ¹² tn The Hebrew term פֶּשַׁע (pesha’, rebellious act”) is here used metonymically for the guilt such actions produce.

[103:13]  ¹³ tn Or “sons,” but the Hebrew term sometimes refers to children in general.

[103:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “those who fear him.”