I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean from all your idols and everything else that has defiled you.

I will purify them from the sins that they have committed against me, and I will forgive their sins and their rebellion.

Return to the LORD, and let this prayer be your offering to him: "Forgive all our sins and accept our prayer, and we will praise you as we have promised.

The LORD says, "I will bring my people back to me. I will love them with all my heart; no longer am I angry with them.

The people of Israel will have nothing more to do with idols; I will answer their prayers and take care of them. Like an evergreen tree I will shelter them; I am the source of all their blessings."

(SEE 3:20)

You will be merciful to us once again. You will trample our sins underfoot and send them to the bottom of the sea!

"When that time comes," says the LORD Almighty, "a fountain will be opened to purify the descendants of David and the people of Jerusalem from their sin and idolatry.

She will have a son, and you will name him Jesus---because he will save his people from their sins."

who came to tell people about the light, so that all should hear the message and believe.

This was the real light---the light that comes into the world and shines on all people.

Sin must not be your master; for you do not live under law but under God's grace.

And this is how all Israel will be saved. As the scripture says, "The Savior will come from Zion and remove all wickedness from the descendants of Jacob.

He gave himself for us, to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good.

But on the mountains of Israel the trees will again grow leaves and bear fruit for you, my people Israel. You are going to come home soon.

I am on your side, and I will make sure that your land is plowed again and crops are planted on it.

The trees will bear fruit, the fields will produce crops, and everyone will live in safety on his own land. When I break my people's chains and set them free from those who made them slaves, then they will know that I am the LORD.

I will give them fertile fields and put an end to hunger in the land. The other nations will not sneer at them any more.

(SEE 105:5)

At that time I will answer the prayers of my people Israel. I will make rain fall on the earth, and the earth will produce grain and grapes and olives.

I will establish my people in the land and make them prosper. I will show love to those who were called "Unloved," and to those who were called "Not-My-People" I will say, "You are my people," and they will answer, "You are our God."

Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.