Psalms 103:7-8 → Exodus 34:6

Psalm 103:8 — "The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion" (רַחוּם וְחַנּוּן יְהוָה אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם וְרַב־חָסֶד) — is a near-verbatim quotation of the divine self-revelation in Exodus 34:6: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness." This creedal formula, first proclaimed by God Himself on Sinai after the golden calf apostasy, became Israel's foundational confession of the divine character, echoed throughout the Psalms, Prophets, and Writings. The psalmist invokes it here as the theological ground for the preceding catalogue of divine benefits — forgiveness, healing, redemption, and crowning with lovingkindness (vv. 3-5). Verse 7 first grounds the formula in that same Sinai theophany — "He made known His ways (דְּרָכָיו, derakhav) to Moses" — so that the confession of verse 8 flows directly from the revelation Moses received.