Response: The Lord is kind and merciful.

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Response: The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.

The Lord is compassion and love, slow to anger and rich in mercy. He does not treat us according to our sins nor repay us according to our faults.

As a father has compassion on his sons, the Lord has pity on those who fear him; for he knows of what we are made, he remembers that we are dust.

As for man, his days are like grass; he flowers like the flower of the field; the wind blows and he is gone and his place never sees him again.

But the love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear; his justice reaches out to children’s children when they keep his covenant in truth.