If you do well, it will lift. But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the doorway. Its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
Micah 7:18 - Tree of Life Version Who is a God like You pardoning iniquity, overlooking transgression, for the remnant of His heritage? He will not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who is a God like You, Who forgives iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retains not His anger forever, because He delights in mercy and loving-kindness. American Standard Version (1901) Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness. Common English Bible Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity, overlooking the sin of the few remaining for his inheritance? He doesn’t hold on to his anger forever; he delights in faithful love. Catholic Public Domain Version What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. |
If you do well, it will lift. But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the doorway. Its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
and said: “Adonai, God of Israel, there is no God like You, in heaven above or on earth below, keeping covenant and lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart.
For if you return to Adonai, your brothers and children will receive compassion before their captors, and will return to this land. For Adonai your God is compassionate and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”
Hear the supplications of Your servant and Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from Your dwelling place, from heaven, and when You hear, forgive.
They refused to obey and did not remember Your wonders that You did among them. Instead, they became stiff-necked and in their rebellion, appointed a leader in order to return to their bondage. But You are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to anger, and abounding in love. Therefore You did not abandon them,
As a father has compassion on his children, so Adonai has compassion on those who fear Him.
All my bones will say: “Adonai, who is like You, rescuing the poor from one too strong for him, the poor and needy from one who robs him?”
For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to high heaven. You have done great things— O God, who is like You?
But You, my Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, full of love and truth.
For You, my Lord, are good, and ready to forgive and full of mercy to all who call upon You.
The heavens praise Your wonders, Adonai —Your faithfulness, too— in the assembly of the kedoshim.
God is greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all around Him.
Who is like You, Adonai, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, awesome in praises, doing wonders?
He said, “If now I have found grace in Your eyes, my Lord, let my Lord please go within our midst, even though this is a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your own inheritance.”
“Come now, let us reason together,” says Adonai. “Though your sins be like scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they will become like wool.
No inhabitant will say, “I am sick.” The people dwelling there will be forgiven their iniquity.
Behold, it was for my own shalom that I had great bitterness. You have loved my soul out of the Pit of destruction! For You have flung all my sins behind Your back.
To whom then will you liken God? To what likeness will you compare Him?
“To whom then will you liken Me? Or who is My equal?” says the Holy One.
I, I am the One who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.
I have blotted out your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.”
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous one his thoughts, let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
You wearied of the length of your way, yet you did not say, “It is hopeless!” You found renewed strength, so you did not weaken.
For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would grow weak before Me, the breath of those whom I made.
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
Your holy cities became a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Then I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in My people. No longer will the voice of weeping or the voice of crying be heard in her.
Go! Proclaim these words toward the north, saying: “Return backsliding Israel,” says Adonai. “I will no longer frown on you, for I am merciful,” says Adonai. “I will not keep a grudge forever.
Would He keep a grudge forever? Would He keep it to the end?’ So you said—yet you have done all the evil things you could.”
Erect road markers, set up signposts! Set your heart toward the highway, the way by which you traveled! Return, O virgin Israel, return to your cities.
Thus says Adonai, who gives the sun as a light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars as a light by night, who stirs up the sea so its waves roar, Adonai-Tzva’ot is His Name:
“Yes, I will delight in doing good for them, and with all My heart and all My soul I will in truth plant them in this land.”
I will also cleanse them from all their iniquity in which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their wrongs in which they have sinned against Me and in which they have rebelled against Me.
Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and spoke to the king, saying:
In those days and in that time” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “Israel’s guilt will be sought, but there will be none, also for the sins of Judah, but they will not be found. For I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.
“Days are soon coming,” declares Adonai, “when I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised—
“Do I delight at all in the death of the wicked?” It is a declaration of Adonai. “Rather, should he not return from his ways, and live?
Say to them: ‘As I live’—it is a declaration of Adonai—‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Return, return from your evil ways. Why will you die, O house of Israel?’
None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.’
The Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against Him.
Return O Israel, to Adonai your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.
“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, for My anger will turn away from him.
Thus says Adonai: For three crimes of Edom even for four, I will not relent. For he pursued his brother with a sword and stifled his compassion. For his anger tore continually, and he kept his wrath forever.
Then Adonai said to me: “What do you see, Amos?” I said: “A plumb line.” Then my Lord said: “Behold, I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel— I will no longer pass over them.
He said: “Amos, what do you see?” “A basket of summer fruit,” I said. Then Adonai said to me: “The end has come to My people Israel. I will not again pass over them.
So he prayed to Adonai and said, “Please, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my own country? That’s what I anticipated, fleeing to Tarshish—for I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and full of kindness, and relenting over calamity.
“I will surely gather Jacob—all of you! I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock within its pasture. They will be noisy with people.
I will make her who was limping into a remnant, and her who was banished a mighty nation. Adonai will reign over them on Mount Zion from that time and forever.”
So He will arise and tend His flock with the strength of Adonai— in the majesty of the Name of Adonai His God. And they will live securely, for then He will be great to the ends of the earth.
Tend Your people with Your staff, the flock of Your inheritance, dwelling alone, in a forest in the midst of a fertile garden. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Adonai your God is in your midst— a mighty Savior! He will delight over you with joy. He will quiet you with His love. He will dance for joy over you with singing.’
No misfortune is to be seen in Jacob, and no misery in Israel! Adonai their God is with them —the King’s shout is among them!
But it was right to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead but has come back to life! He was lost, but is found.’”
and that repentance for the removal of sins is to be proclaimed in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
“There is none like God, Jeshurun, riding through the heavens to your aid and through the skies in His majesty.
For judgment is merciless to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Then they removed the foreign gods from among them, and worshipped Adonai. So His soul could not bear the misery of Israel.