The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
- KJV The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
- NKJV The Lord is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works.
- NASB The Lord is good to all, And His mercies are over all His works.
- NLT The Lord is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all his creation.
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Quick answer
God is good to all, and His tender mercies extend over everything He has made. His goodness reaches every creature in His care.
Overview
This celebrates God's common grace, His benevolent care poured out upon all creation, not only the covenant people. His compassion is as wide as His works. Such universal kindness reflects the Father who makes His sun rise on the evil and the good (Matthew 5:45).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Nah 1:7The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.
- Ps 100:5For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
- Matt 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
- Jonah 4:11So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
- Acts 17:25Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
- Ps 104:27All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
- Ps 65:9–13You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- Ps 36:6–7Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
- Acts 14:17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
- Ps 25:8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
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