⁹ I will not execute my burning anger;
    I will not again destroy Ephraim;
^(A)for I am God and not a man,
    ^(B)the Holy One in your midst,
    and I will not come in wrath.^[a]

^19 (A)God is not man, that he should lie,
    or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
    Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

^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.
¹⁹ He will ^(E)again have compassion on us;
    ^(F)he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
^(G)You will cast all our^[a] sins
    into the depths of the sea.
^20 (H)You will show faithfulness to Jacob
    and steadfast love to Abraham,
^(I)as you have sworn to our fathers
    from the days of old.

^11 (A)For I am with you to save you,
declares the Lord;
^(B)I will make a full end of all the nations
    among whom I scattered you,
    but of you I will not make a full end.
^(C)I will ^(D)discipline you in just measure,
    and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
^9 (A)For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.