17 (A)Behold, it was for my welfare
    that I had great bitterness;
(B)but in love you have delivered my life
    from the pit of destruction,
(C)for you have cast all my sins
    behind your back.

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17 Surely it was for my benefit(A)
    that I suffered such anguish.(B)
In your love you kept me
    from the pit(C) of destruction;
you have put all my sins(D)
    behind your back.(E)

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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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25 “I, even I, am he who blots out
    your transgressions,(A) for my own sake,(B)
    and remembers your sins(C) no more.(D)

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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.
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.

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  1. Micah 7:19 Hebrew their

18 Who is a God(A) like you,
    who pardons sin(B) and forgives(C) the transgression
    of the remnant(D) of his inheritance?(E)
You do not stay angry(F) forever
    but delight to show mercy.(G)
19 You will again have compassion on us;
    you will tread our sins underfoot
    and hurl all our iniquities(H) into the depths of the sea.(I)

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    at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
    O Lord my God.

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To the roots of the mountains(A) I sank down;
    the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, Lord my God,
    brought my life up from the pit.(B)

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34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ (A)for they shall all know me, (B)from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For (C)I will forgive their iniquity, and (D)I will remember their sin no more.”

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34 No longer will they teach(A) their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know(B) me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive(C) their wickedness
    and will remember their sins(D) no more.”

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O Lord, you have brought up my soul from (A)Sheol;
    you restored me to life from among those who (B)go down to the pit.[a]

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  1. Psalm 30:3 Or to life, that I should not go down to the pit

You, Lord, brought me up from the realm of the dead;(A)
    you spared me from going down to the pit.(B)

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13 (A)For great is your steadfast love toward me;
    you have (B)delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

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13 For great is your love toward me;
    you have delivered me(A) from the depths,
    from the realm of the dead.(B)

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I am counted among those who (A)go down to the pit;
    I am a man who has no strength,
like one set loose among the dead,
    like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom (B)you remember no more,
    for they are (C)cut off from your hand.
You have put me in (D)the depths of the pit,
    in the (E)regions dark and (F)deep.

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I am counted among those who go down to the pit;(A)
    I am like one without strength.(B)
I am set apart with the dead,
    like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
    who are cut off(C) from your care.

You have put me in the lowest pit,
    in the darkest depths.(D)

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You (A)forgave the iniquity of your people;
    you (B)covered all their sin. Selah

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You forgave(A) the iniquity(B) of your people
    and covered all their sins.[a]

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  1. Psalm 85:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

He drew me up from (A)the pit of destruction,
    out of (B)the miry bog,
and (C)set my feet upon a rock,
    (D)making my steps secure.

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He lifted me out of the slimy pit,(A)
    out of the mud(B) and mire;(C)
he set my feet(D) on a rock(E)
    and gave me a firm place to stand.

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As for me, I said in my (A)prosperity,
    “I shall never be (B)moved.”
By your favor, O Lord,
    you made my (C)mountain stand strong;
you (D)hid your face;
    I was (E)dismayed.

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When I felt secure, I said,
    “I will never be shaken.”(A)
Lord, when you favored me,
    you made my royal mountain[a] stand firm;
but when you hid your face,(B)
    I was dismayed.

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  1. Psalm 30:7 That is, Mount Zion

25 (A)For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
    and what I dread befalls me.
26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
    I have no rest, but trouble comes.”

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25 What I feared has come upon me;
    what I dreaded(A) has happened to me.(B)
26 I have no peace,(C) no quietness;
    I have no rest,(D) but only turmoil.”(E)

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In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
    let them (A)be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

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In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,(A)
    who are caught in the schemes he devises.

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