^{8 Ref} The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

^{9 Ref} He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

^{10 Ref} He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

^{11 Ref} For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

^{12 Ref} As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

^{13 Ref} Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

^{14 Ref} For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

^{15 Ref} As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

^{16 Ref} For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

^{17 Ref} But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;

^{18 Ref} To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.