Psalms 106:7

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.

you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

I will remember Yah’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.

“We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

“Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’

“ ‘ “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

to show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,

Remember his marvelous works that he has done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

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. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),