Micah 7:19

He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depths of the sea, even all our sins.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

18Who is a God like thee, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy.

20He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as thou sworest to our fathers, according to the former days.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 30:6And the Lord shall purge thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

2 Samuel 24:14And David said to Gad, On every side I am much straitened: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his compassions are very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man.

Psalms 85:3Pity me, O Lord: for to thee will I cry all the day. 1

Psalms 103:12By them shall the birds of the sky lodge: 1 They shall utter a voice out of the midst of the rocks. 1

Isaiah 33:24And the people dwelling among them shall by no means say, I am in pain: for their sin shall be forgiven them.

Isaiah 43:25I, even I, am he that blots out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and thy sins; and I will not remember them.

Matthew Henry on Micah 7:15-20

Encouraging Prospects; Encouraging Promises. ( b. c. 700.) 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. 15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things. 16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. 17 They shall lick the dust like a… Read the whole commentary →

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