Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days? Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old— unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.
Be not so terribly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
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.
Take with you words and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.
“We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;
But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb. The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
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