9 And he has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
15 But not as the trespass, so also [is] the gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ, (by grace you{} have been saved)
1 I urge you{} therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your{} bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your{} spiritual service.
13 He who covers his transgressions will not prosper: But whoever confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving-kindness: According to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
6 Remember, O Yahweh, your tender mercies and your loving-kindness; For they have been ever of old.
7 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to your loving-kindness remember me, For your goodness' sake, O Yahweh.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends; He will maintain his cause in judgment.
17 And let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; And establish the work of our hands on us; Yes, the work of our hands establish it.
18 Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving-kindness.
1 They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's, will he return to her again? Will not that land be greatly polluted? But you have prostituted with many companions; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.
2 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where haven't you been lain with? By the ways you have sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
4 Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the best friend of my youth?
5 Will he retain [his anger] forever? Will he keep it to the end? Look, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.
6 Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She's gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree and prostituted there.
7 And I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she didn't return: and her betraying sister Judah saw it.
8 And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet betraying Judah her sister didn't fear; but she also went and prostituted.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her prostitution, that she defiled herself together with the land, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
10 And yet for all this her betraying sister Judah has not returned to me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says Yahweh.
11 And Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than betraying Judah.
12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look in anger on you{+}; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keep [anger] forever.
13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you{+} haven't obeyed my voice, says Yahweh.
14 Return, O backsliding sons, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you{+}: and I will take you{+} one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you{+} to Zion:
15 and I will give you{+} shepherds according to my heart, who will shepherd you{+} with knowledge and understanding.
16 And it will come to pass, when you{+} have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Yahweh, they will say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither will it come to mind; neither will they remember it; neither will they miss it; neither will it be made anymore.
17 At that time they will call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your{+} fathers.
19 But I said, How I will put you among the sons, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! And I said, You will call me My Father, and will not turn away from following me.
20 Surely as a wife betrays [by divorcing] from her companion, so you{+} have betrayed me, O house of Israel, says Yahweh.
21 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the supplications of the sons of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
22 Return, you{+} backsliding sons, I will heal your{+} backslidings. Look, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
23 Truly, delusion comes from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: [but] truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.
24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we haven't obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.
31 Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
1 A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, O Yahweh.
2 Lord, hear my voice: Let your ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.
13 And they implored him, saying, If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.
29 because to you{} it has been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:
1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.
3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
4 And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.
6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You{+} sons of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you{+} out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
7 And don't be{+} like your{+} fathers, and like your{+} brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you{+} see.
8 Now don't be{+} stiff-necked, as your{+} fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your{+} God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you{+}.
9 For if you{+} turn again to Yahweh, your{+} brothers and your{+} sons will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land: for Yahweh your{+} God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you{+}, if you{+} return to him.
10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
11 Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
12 Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh.
13 And there assembled at Jerusalem many people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt-offerings into the house of Yahweh.
16 And they stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood [which they received] of the hand of the Levites.
17 For there were many in the assembly that had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon everyone
19 that sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, though [he is] not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.
20 And Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
21 And the sons of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh.
22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days; and they kept [another] seven days with gladness.
24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
25 And all the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
27 Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
14 Woe [to you{}], when all men will speak well of you{}! For in the same manner their fathers did to the false prophets.
6 Surely goodness and loving-kindness will follow me all the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of Yahweh forever.
11 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, O Yahweh; Let your loving-kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
18 And therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you{}; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you{}: for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help [us] in time of need.
7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.