and you return to Jehovah your God and obey His voice, according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,

If you are thrust out to the ends of the heavens, from there Jehovah your God will gather you, and from there He will fetch you.

Then he observes men and says, I have sinned, and perverted what was right; and it has not been equaled to me.

He has redeemed my soul from passing over to the Pit, and my life shall see the light.

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abounding in mercy unto all those who call upon You.

But You, O Lord, are a Mighty God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

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

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

Can a woman forget her nursing infant, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Indeed, they may forget; yet I will not forget you.

Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says Jehovah.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I call to mind and remember him still. Therefore My heart is stirred for him; I will have mercy and compassion upon him, says Jehovah.

And when I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you in your blood, Live!

When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread the edge of My garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord Jehovah.

How shall I give you up, Ephraim? Shall I deliver you up, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? Shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart churns within Me; My compassions are kindled together.

Who is a Mighty God like You, forgiving iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His possession? His anger does not remain strong forever, for He delights in mercy.

He will return and have compassion on us; He will subdue our iniquities. And You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.

And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.

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

And he fell on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

And Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

Then they all wept greatly, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him again and again,