Psalm 103:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ Like as a father pitieth his children, So the LORD pitieth them that 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 a pleasant child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

Psalm 103:17

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children's children;

Proverbs 3:12

For whom the LORD loveth he reproveth; Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Jeremiah 31:9

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Malachi 4:2

But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.

Psalm 147:11

The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, In those that hope in his mercy.

Matthew 6:32

For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Psalm 103:11

For as the heaven is high above the earth, So great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Acts 13:26

Brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us is the word of this salvation sent forth.

John 20:17

Jesus saith to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended unto the Father: but go unto my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

Matthew 6:9

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these were cities fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.

Numbers 11:12

Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

Leviticus 26:44

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God: