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Micah 7:18 NIV

Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.

Complete Jewish Bible Chapter 7

Who is a God like you,

pardoning the sin and overlooking the crimes

of the remnant of his heritage?

He does not retain his anger forever,

because he delights in grace.

The New International Version Chapter 8

10 “Tomorrow,” Pharaoh said.

Moses replied, “It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the LORD our God.

Frog plague

1 Samuel 2:2 CJB

“No one is as holy as Adonai, because there is none to compare with you, no rock like our God.

John 3:16 CJB

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed.

Psalm 119:114 NIV

You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.

Gen 15:1 Shield/protector

Psalm 18:2 (NIV)

2 The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;

my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,

my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

John 1:1 NIV

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Hope - trust, faith

Psalm 147:11 NIV

the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.

Ps 33:18 fear him

Psalm 103:11 NIV

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;

Lamentations 3:22–23 CJB

that the grace of Adonai is not exhausted, that his compassion has not ended. [On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!

Hosea 11:9 CJB

I will not give vent to the fierceness of my rage, I will not return to destroy Efrayim; for I am God, not a human being, the Holy One among you; so I will not come in fury.

Wrath Rage

Psalm 78:38 CJB

Yet he, because he is full of compassion, forgave their sin and did not destroy; many times he turned away his anger and didn’t rouse all his wrath.

Psalm 68:19 NIV

Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.

Psalm 55:22 NASB95

Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

Matthew 11:28–30 (CJB)

28 “Come to me, all of you who are struggling and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Psalm 130:7 CJB

Isra’el, put your hope in Adonai! For grace is found with Adonai, and with him is unlimited redemption.

Hope

W/out Jesus - good as it gets, W/Jesus - as bad as it gets

John 11:25–26 NIV

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”