Psalms 103:13
“Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.”
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.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.”
“Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.”
“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?”
“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:”
“But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;”