Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.
Be not so terribly angry, O Lord, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.
Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me!
The Lord preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.
For you meet him with rich blessings; you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.
for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
“O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.
And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity.
Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me. Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
And she said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!”
The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”
And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
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