and shall return to the Lord your God, and shall hearken to His voice, according to all things which I command you this day, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

If your dispersion be from one end of heaven to the other, from there the Lord your God shall gather you, and from there the Lord your God shall take you.

Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? And He has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.

Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

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.

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.

Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? But if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget you, says the Lord.

Seek the Lord, and when you find Him, call upon Him; and when He draws near to you,

For My counsels are not as your counsels, nor are My ways as your ways, says the Lord.

I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true comfort;

Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to Me: for because My words are in him, I will surely remember him. Therefore I made haste [to help] him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says the Lord.

And I passed by to you, and saw you polluted in your blood; and I said to you, [Let there be] life out of your blood;

And I passed by you and saw you, and behold, [it was] your time and a time of resting; and I spread My wings over you, and covered your shame, and swore [an oath] to you; and I entered into covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became Mine.

How shall I deal with you, O Ephraim? [How] shall I protect you, O Israel? What shall I do with you? I will make you as Adamah, and as Zeboiim; My heart is turned at once, My repentance is powerfully excited.

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.

"For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."

But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have come to be near by the blood of Christ.

And having come, He preached peace to you who were far away and to those near.

And Esau ran on to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they both wept.

And he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept on him; and Benjamin wept on his neck.

And Joseph, having made ready his chariots, went up to meet Israel his father, at the City of Heroes; and having appeared to him, he fell on his neck, and wept with abundant weeping.

And there was considerable weeping by all, and falling on Paul's neck, they were affectionately kissing him,