Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sin?
"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 under foot. You will cast all our[5] 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.