Exodus 34:6-7
6The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, a“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and bgracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast clove and faithfulness, 7 dkeeping steadfast love for thousands, ▼▼Or to the thousandth generation
fforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but gwho will by no means clear the guilty, hvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Numbers 14:18-19
18 i‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, jvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ 19Please kpardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just las you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”Psalms 51:1
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when mNathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
1 nHave mercy on me, ▼▼Or Be gracious to me
O God,according to your steadfast love;
according to your pabundant mercy
qblot out my transgressions.
Psalms 130:7
7 O Israel, rhope in the Lord!For swith the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
Isaiah 43:25
25 “I, I am hetwho blots out uyour transgressions for my own sake,
and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 44:22
22 vI have blotted out your transgressions like a cloudand your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Jeremiah 3:12-13
12Go, and proclaim these words toward wthe north, and say,x“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for yI am merciful,
declares the Lord;
zI will not be angry forever.
13 aaOnly acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under abevery green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
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