Psalms 103:13 · KJV
“Like as a father pitieth {his} children, {so} the LORD pitieth them that fear him.”
— Psalms 103:13
As far as the east is from the west, {so} far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we {are} dust.
Psalms 103 — Context
For as the heaven is high above the earth, {so} great is his mercy toward them that fear him. {as...: Heb. according to the height of the heaven}
12As far as the east is from the west, {so} far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
13Like as a father pitieth {his} children, {so} the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we {are} dust.
15{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Cross References
Luke 11:11-12
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if {he ask} a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
Hebrews 12:5-11
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Luke 15:21-22
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Psalms 103:17
But the mercy of the LORD {is} from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
Jeremiah 31:20
{Is} Ephraim my dear son? {is he} a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD. {are...: Heb. sound}
Proverbs 3:12
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son {in whom} he delighteth.
Jeremiah 31:9
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim {is} my firstborn. {supplications: or, favours}
Malachi 3:16-17
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard {it}, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.