Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. 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.
at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.
And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah
He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.” By your favor, O Lord, you made my mountain stand strong; you hid your face; I was dismayed.
For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me. I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”
In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
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