If only we would have died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we would have died in this wilderness! And why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? Our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.

And they said to one another, Let us select a leader and return into Egypt.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will these people provoke Me? And how long do they refuse to believe Me for all the signs which I have done among them?

And Moses said, Why do you transgress the word of the Lord? You shall not prosper.

You are a prince, and have you brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and have you given us an inheritance of land and vineyards? Would you have put out the eyes of those men? We will not go up!

Moreover they despised the desirable land, and did not believe His word.

And they murmured in their tents; they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord.

Since I called, and you did not hear, and I spoke at length, and you gave no heed;

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, having refused Him who warned [them], how much more [shall we not escape] if we turn away from Him who warns from heaven;

And they forgot His benefits, and His miracles which He [had] shown them;

They remembered not His hand, the day in which He delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.

How He had worked His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan;

For You, O Lord, are kind and gentle, and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon You.

But You, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true.

Our fathers in Egypt understood not Your wonders, and remembered not the multitude of Your mercy; but provoked [Him] as they went up by the Red Sea.

They made haste, they forgot His works; they waited not for His counsel.

Do you not yet perceive, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took [up]?

How is it you do not perceive that I did not speak to you about bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?"

Therefore I shall not neglect to constantly remind you concerning these things, although you know and have been established in the present truth.

knowing that the putting off of my tent is soon, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

And they said to one another, Let us select a leader and return into Egypt.

whom our fathers did not desire to be obedient, but they rejected [him] and returned in their heart back to Egypt,

The Lord [is] longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and He shall by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

Forgive this people their sin according to Your great mercy, as You were favorable to them from Egypt until now.

For You, O Lord, are kind and gentle, and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon You.

But You, O Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and true.

For with You is forgiveness;

Who is a God like You, 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.

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

And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, gracious and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true,

and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity and unrighteousness and sins; and He will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.

But He is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy [them;] yea, He will frequently turn away His wrath, and will not kindle all His anger.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, longsuffering, and full of mercy.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities.

As far as the east is from the west, [so far] has He removed our transgressions from us.

For He knows our frame; [He] remembers that we are dust.

For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more.

to them that keep His covenant, and remember His commandments, to do them.

The Lord is compassionate, and merciful; long suffering, and abundant in mercy.

The Lord is good to those that wait [on Him]; and His compassions are over all His works.

let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.

But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is My way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from My mind.

and tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for He is merciful and compassionate, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and relenting of evil.

For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

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May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; let Him not desert us nor turn from us,

Many a time He delivered them; but they provoked Him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities.

And He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercy.