Psalm 103:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Like as a father pitieth his children, So the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ As a father loves and pities his children, so the Lord loves and pities those who fear Him [with reverence, worship, and awe].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.

Common English Bible

¹³ Like a parent feels compassion for their children— that’s how the LORD feels compassion for those who honor him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ You irrigate the mountains from your heights. The earth will be satiated from the fruit of your works,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:

Psalm 103:13 Cross References

Psalm 103:11

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

Psalm 103:17

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,

Psalm 147:11

but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

Proverbs 3:12

for the Lord reproves the one he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he the child in whom I delight? As often as I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore I am deeply moved for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back; I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path where they shall not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Leviticus 26:44

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God,

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a wet nurse carries a nursing child, to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors’?

Matthew 6:32

For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Matthew 6:9

“Pray, then, in this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be revered as holy.

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Acts 13:26

“Brothers and sisters, you descendants of Abraham’s family and others who fear God, to us the message of this salvation has been sent.

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these were fortress towns with high walls, double gates, and bars, besides a great many villages.