| 8 | The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. |
| 9 | He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger for ever. |
| 10 | He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor requite us according to our iniquities. |
| 11 | For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; |
| 12 | as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. |
| 13 | As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear him. |
| 14 | For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. |
| 15 | As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; |
| 16 | for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. |
| 17 | But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, |
| 18 | to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments. |