Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.
then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.