Mazmur 103:4

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103:4 who delivers¹ your life from the Pit,²

who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,

Mazmur 103:8

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103:8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful;

he is patient³ and demonstrates great loyal love.⁴

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

so his loyal love towers⁵ over his faithful followers.⁶

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103:13 As a father has compassion on his children,⁷

so the Lord has compassion on his faithful followers.⁸

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103:17 But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers,⁹

and is faithful to their descendants,¹⁰

[103:4] ¹tn Or “redeems.”

[103:4] ²tn The Hebrew term שַׁחַת (shakhat, “pit”) is often used as a title for Sheol (see Pss 16:10; 30:9; 49:9; 55:24.

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

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

[103:11] ⁵tn For this sense of the verb גָבַר (gavar), see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 17, 19.

[103:11] ⁶tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[103:13] ⁷tn Or “sons,” but the Hebrew term sometimes refers to children in general.

[103:13] ⁸tn Heb “those who fear him.”

[103:17] ⁹tn Heb “but the loyal love of the Lord [is] from everlasting to everlasting over those who fear him.”

[103:17] ¹⁰tn Heb “and his righteousness to sons of sons.”