--- title: "Psalm 103:8-12 | Bible Nudge" description: "Read Psalm 103:8-12 in the World English Bible and King James Version, with what surrounds the passage and a question to sit with." url: "https://biblenudge.com/context/psalm-103-8-12" lang: "en" image: "https://biblenudge.com/og/default.jpg" alternates: es: "https://biblenudge.com/es/contexto/salmo-103-8-12.md" --- [Your nudge](https://biblenudge.com/nudge) Read the passage # Psalm 103:8-12 World English Bible Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. In the King James Version The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. King James Version (Public Domain) ## What surrounds this passage Psalm 103 is a psalm of praise recalling God’s character. These verses describe mercy, anger that does not last, and transgressions carried as far away as east is from west. The verses on either side Psalm 103:5-15, World English Bible 1. who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 2. Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed. 3. He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel. 4. Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. 5. He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever. 6. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities. 7. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. 8. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 9. Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. 10. For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. 11. As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. A question to sit with What are you still holding that this says has already been carried away? Why this one, and not these 3 passages were considered for this and turned down, each for a reason written at the time. 1 John 1:9 It is conditional. To somebody stuck on what they did, "if we confess" reads as one more requirement to meet before anything changes, which is exactly where they are already stuck. Romans 8:1 A strong passage, but it assumes a theological frame the reader may not share, and its qualifying clause invites self-examination at the moment self-examination is the problem. Psalm 51 David’s confession fits somebody seeking to repent. It does not fit somebody who has repented and still cannot put it down. Written about this passage - [Bible Verses for Addiction Recovery: For Day One, the Morning After a Slip, and the Steps](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-addiction-recovery) Psalm 103:8-12 for the morning after a slip, one thing to do with it on Day 1, Romans 7 and Micah 7, verses for the Steps, and where to find help by country. - [Bible Verses for Forgiving Yourself: When Your Heart Condemns You](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-forgiving-yourself) Confessed it and still cannot set it down? Psalm 103:8-12 with the verses around it, 1 John 3:20 on the heart that condemns, Peter by the lake, and next steps. - [Bible Verses for Guilt and Shame: As Far as the East Is From the West](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-guilt-and-shame) For anyone who has confessed it, apologized, tried to put it right, and still cannot put it down. One passage that describes, rather than instructs. - [Bible Verses for Regret: The Things You Did, Did Not Do, or Did Not Say](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-regret) Psalm 103:8-12 for going back over what you cannot change, with Paul's two sorrows, Peter's tears, Joseph and his brothers, and regret after a death. - [Bible verses for the loss of a pet](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-the-loss-of-a-pet) One passage with no clause about what was lost, four passages on animals read with what surrounds them, and the guilt that comes with having chosen the day. - [Is It a Sin to Cuss? What Taking the Lord's Name in Vain Meant, How Churches Read Swearing, and Psalm 103 for the Regret Afterward](https://biblenudge.com/blog/is-it-a-sin-to-cuss) Swore, or said Oh my God without thinking? You are not condemned here. Psalm 103 for the regret, the third commandment in its setting, and how churches read it. - [Is It a Sin to Drink Alcohol? How Christians Differ, What the Bible Records, and Psalm 103:8-12 for the Worry](https://biblenudge.com/blog/is-it-a-sin-to-drink-alcohol) Had a drink, or too many, and wondering where you stand? Nobody is condemned here. How Christians differ, what Scripture records about wine, and Psalm 103:8-12. - [Is It a Sin to Get a Tattoo? Psalm 103 for the Tattoo You Already Have, and Leviticus 19:28 in Its Setting](https://biblenudge.com/blog/is-it-a-sin-to-get-a-tattoo) Already have a tattoo and been told it is a sin? A person with a tattoo is not condemned. Psalm 103 to read first, and Leviticus 19:28 in its setting. - [Simon Name Meaning in the Bible: The Simons of the Gospels, Why Jesus Called Simon Peter, and Simón in Spanish](https://biblenudge.com/blog/simon-name-meaning-bible) Simon comes from the Hebrew Shimon, linked to hearing. Which Simon is which, and why Jesus renamed him. - [What Does the Bible Say About Shame? Faces That Are Not Covered](https://biblenudge.com/blog/what-does-the-bible-say-about-shame) What the Bible says about shame, whether it comes from something you did, from who you feel you are, or from what someone did to you, with Psalm 103 and Luke 15. [Return to nudge](https://biblenudge.com/nudge)