| Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you.1 – My beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: … I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.2 – I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him.3 – Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?4 |
| He arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.5 – I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away.6 |
| If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.7 |
