21 And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, (A)and when you hear, forgive.

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God's Steadfast Love and Compassion

18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
    and passing over transgression
    (C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in steadfast love.

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19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. (A)Delay not, (B)for your own sake, O my God, because (C)your city and (D)your people are called by your name.”

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25 “I, I am he
    (A)who blots out (B)your transgressions for my own sake,
    and I will not remember your sins.

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If you, O Lord, should (A)mark iniquities,
    O Lord, who could (B)stand?
But with you there is (C)forgiveness,
    (D)that you may be feared.

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27 Then (A)the priests and the Levites arose and (B)blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to (C)his holy habitation in heaven.

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39 then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

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12 and forgive us our debts,
    as we also have forgiven our debtors.

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(A)Pray then like this:

(B)“Our Father in heaven,
(C)hallowed be (D)your name.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:9 Or Let your name be kept holy, or Let your name be treated with reverence

15 For thus says (A)the One who is high and lifted up,
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is (B)Holy:
(C)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
    and also (D)with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
(E)to revive the spirit of the lowly,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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22 (A)I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
    and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.

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[a] Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore (A)let your words be few.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:2 Ch 5:1 in Hebrew

Our Eyes Look to the Lord Our God

A Song of (A)Ascents.

123 To you I (B)lift up my eyes,
    O you who are (C)enthroned in the heavens!

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You (A)forgave the iniquity of your people;
    you (B)covered all their sin. Selah
You withdrew all your wrath;
    you (C)turned from your hot anger.

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12 “Is not God high in the heavens?
    See (A)the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13 But you say, (B)‘What does God know?
    Can he judge through (C)the deep darkness?
14 (D)Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,
    and he walks on the vault of heaven.’

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