Psalms 103:13

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him. God's mercy is tender and fatherly.

Cross-references · 18

• Luke 11:11–12“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
• Heb 12:5–11and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
• Luke 15:21–22The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
• Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
• Jer 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
• Prov 3:12for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
• Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Ps 147:11Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
• Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
• Mal 3:16–17Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
• Matt 6:32For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
• Isa 63:15–16Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
• Ps 103:11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
• Deut 3:5All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides a great many villages without walls.
• Matt 6:9Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
• Acts 13:26Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
• John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
• Num 11:12Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’

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