He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.
Parallel translations
- WEB He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- KJV He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- BSB He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
- NASB He will again take pity on us; He will trample on our wrongdoings. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea.
- NLT Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!
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Quick answer
God will again show compassion, subdue His people's iniquities, and cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. It pictures the complete and final removal of forgiven sin.
Overview
Micah celebrates that the LORD will tread their sins underfoot and hurl them into the sea's depths, an image of decisive, total forgiveness. The God who once drowned Pharaoh's army now drowns His people's sins. This is gospel hope: in Christ our sins are not merely overlooked but removed completely, remembered against us no more.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
- Rom 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
- Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
- Jer 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
- Jer 50:20In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
- Ps 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- 1 Jn 3:8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
- Rom 8:2–3For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
- Rom 8:13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
- Ps 130:8He will redeem Israel from all their sins.
- Rom 7:23–25but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
- Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
- Ezek 36:25–27I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Isa 63:15–17Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
- Ezek 11:19–20I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
- Jas 4:5–6Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
- Ps 90:13–14Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
- Rom 6:17–22But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
- Deut 30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
- Deut 32:36For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
- Jer 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
- Lam 3:32For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Ezra 9:8–9Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.
- Deut 30:3that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
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