11 translations · Hebrew
Psalm 86:5
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Psalm 86:5 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- KJV King James Version
- For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- For You, Lord, [are] good and forgiving, || And abundant in kindness to all calling You.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- For you, Lord, are good; you are forgiving and full of trustworthy love for all who come to you.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- For Thou, Lord, [art] good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For thou, LORD, art good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon thee.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899 · Psalm 85:5 in this edition
- For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| כִּֽי־ | kî- | For | H3588 כִּי for |
| אַתָּ֣ה | ’at·tāh | You | H859 אַתָּ֫ה you(m.s.) |
| אֲ֭דֹנָי | ’ă·ḏō·nāy | O Lord | H136 אֲדֹנָי Lord |
| ט֣וֹב | ṭō·wḇ | are kind | H2896 טוֹב pleasant |
| וְסַלָּ֑ח | wə·sal·lāḥ | and forgiving | H5546 סַלָּח forgiving |
| וְרַב־ | wə·raḇ- | rich | H7227 רַב many |
| חֶ֝֗סֶד | ḥe·seḏ | in loving devotion | H2617 חֶ֫סֶד kindness |
| לְכָל־ | lə·ḵāl | to all | H3605 כֹּל all |
| קֹרְאֶֽיךָ׃ | qō·rə·’e·ḵā | who call on You | H7121 קָרָא to call: call to |
Related verses
- Psalm 145:8–9
Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
- Joel 2:13
Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
- Exodus 34:6
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- Psalm 103:8
Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
- Nehemiah 9:17
and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
- Acts 2:21
It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
- Psalm 25:8
Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
- Psalm 145:18
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
- Ezekiel 36:37
“‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
- 1 John 4:8–9
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
3 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
4 Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
6 Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
Read all of Psalm 86 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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