Psalm 103:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities 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,

Psalm 103:13 Cross References

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Psalm 103:17

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

Proverbs 3:12

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

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

Malachi 4:2

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

Psalm 147:11

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

Matthew 6:32

For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

Psalm 103:11

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

Acts 13:26

“Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, “Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”

Matthew 6:9

Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that thou shouldst say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child,’ to the land which thou didst swear to give their fathers?

Leviticus 26:44

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God;