Thematic Bible: The lord purging transgressions


Thematic Bible



Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy. He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea. You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made. To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come. Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy. His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever. He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing. read more.
For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.

This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters; Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out. Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds. read more.
See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country. The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself: Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise. But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel. You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes. You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings. I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind. Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain