For their sake he remembered his covenant, and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
Psalm 90:13 - New Revised Standard Version Turn, O Lord! How long? Have compassion on your servants! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Return, O LORD, how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]! How long–? Revoke Your sentence and be compassionate and at ease toward Your servants. American Standard Version (1901) Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Common English Bible Come back to us, LORD! Please, quick! Have some compassion for your servants! Catholic Public Domain Version You will walk over the asp and the king serpent, and you will trample the lion and the dragon. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon. |
For their sake he remembered his covenant, and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
For the Lord will vindicate his people, and have compassion on his servants.
For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who can give you praise?
How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?
Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.
And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.
Why, O Lord, do you make us stray from your ways and harden our heart, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, for the sake of the tribes that are your heritage.
And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again to their heritage and to their land, everyone of them.
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
The Lord relented concerning this; “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”
Therefore, thus says the Lord, I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion; my house shall be built in it, says the Lord of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.
And whenever it came to rest, he would say, “Return, O Lord of the ten thousand thousands of Israel.”
Indeed the Lord will vindicate his people, have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, neither bond nor free remaining.