The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

The Lord is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

A person who has a quick temper does foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes is hated.

The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.

A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.

Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break a bone.

But he would give a double portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her. Now the Lord had not enabled her to have children.

She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said, “Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai.

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,

Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor and said, “May my master, King David, live forever!”

When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.

Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord and worshiped him.

Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people replied “Amen! Amen!” as they lifted their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will certainly not allow the wicked to go unpunished.He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet.