Yahweh’s love, mercy and faithfulness

5 Then Yahweh came down in the cloud and stood with him there, and he pronounced his name ‘Yahweh’. 6 Yahweh passed over above his face and proclaimed, “I am Yahweh, a compassionate and gracious God, slow to get angry but exuding faithfulness and trustworthiness.[ref] 7 I display faithfulness to thousands of generations—forgiving disobedience, transgression, and sin. But I certainly won’t let the guilty get away with it—visiting the iniquity of the parents onto the children and onto the grandchildren—to the third and the fourth generations.”

8 Mosheh hurried and bowed to the ground and worshipped Yahweh 9 and said, “Please, if I have found favour in your sight, my master, please go with us, because these are stubborn people. And forgive our disobedience and our sin and take us as your inheritance.”

8 Yahweh is gracious and merciful,[ref]

slow to get angry and generous in his loyal commitment to us.

9 He won’t keep bringing cases against us,

≈ or hold them open forever.

10 He doesn’t give us what our rebellion deserves,

≈ or repay us according to how much we disobeyed.

11 Just as the heavens are far above the earth,

so his loyal commitment is strong towards those who obey him.

12 As far as the east is from the west,

he’s removed the guilt for our disobedience that far away.

13 Yahweh has compassion on those who obey him,

just like a father has compassion on his children

14 because he knows how we’re made—

remembering that we’re just dust.

15 As for humankind, their days are like grass that comes and goes.

≈ People are like flowers in the countryside that are here today and gone tomorrow

16 because the wind blows across them and they’re finished

≈ then the next day you can’t even tell where they were.

17 But Yahweh’s loyal commitment to those who honour him continues forever,

≈ and he gives his favour through to their children’s children—

18 to the people who keep his agreement,

≈ and all those who are careful to obey his instructions.

6 You must do that because you’re a group of people who belong only to your god Yahweh. He’s chosen you from all the people groups in the world to be his own special people.[ref]

7 Yahweh loved you and chose you all, not because you were the most populous nation (in fact, you were the smallest of all the nations), 8 but because Yahweh loves you all and because he kept the promise that he’d made to your ancestors. Yahweh used his power to rescue you all from the slavery imposed by Mitsrayim’s (Egypt) King Par’oh (Pharaoh). 9 So remember that your god Yahweh is God—the faithful god who keeps agreements and displays loyal commitment toward a thousand generations of those who love him and obey what he’s commanded.[ref] 10 However, to those who hate him, he won’t hesitate to pay them back with punishment and destruction. 11 So be sure to obey all the instructions, rules, and regulations that I’m giving you today.

ז (Zayin)

19 Remember my suffering and my wanderings,

the wormwood and bitterness.

20 It continually remembers

and my insides turn to butter.

21 I bring that to mind,

therefore I have hope.

ח (Het)

22 Yahweh’s loyal commitment doesn’t cease.

His mercy doesn’t end.

23 His loyal commitment and his mercy are new morning by morning.

He is very faithful.

24 “Yahweh is my portion,” I told myself,

“therefore, I’ll place my hope in him.”

ט (Tet)

25 Yahweh is good to those who depend on him—

to anyone sincerely wanting to follow him.

26 It is good to be silent and wait

for Yahweh to rescue us.

6 While we were still weak, and at the right time for ungodly people, the messiah died for us. 7 Now it’s rare for someone to offer to die to save a guiltless person, although perhaps someone might offer for the greater good, 8 but God demonstrated his love towards us in that the messiah died for us while we were still sinners!

9 So now that we’ve been declared guiltless because of his blood, we’ll certainly be spared from his severe anger, 10 because if we were reconciled to God through the death of his son while we were still enemies, now that we’ve been reconciled, how much more certain that we’ll be saved by Yeshua’s (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) life! 11 ⇔And not only that, because of what our master Yeshua Messiah has done so that we might receive that reconciliation, we can now boast in God about it.