Psalm 130:1-8
1 A Canticle in steps. From the depths, I have cried out to you, O Lord. 2 O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. 3 If you, O Lord, were to heed iniquities, who, O Lord, could persevere? 4 For with you, there is forgiveness, and because of your law, I persevered with you, Lord. My soul has persevered in his word. 5 My soul has hoped in the Lord. 6 From the morning watch, even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord. 7 For with the Lord there is mercy, and with him there is bountiful redemption. 8 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Ezekiel 18:21-28 21 But if the impious man does penance for all his sins which he has committed, and if he keeps all my precepts, and accomplishes judgment and justice, then he shall certainly live, and he shall not die. 22 I will not remember all his iniquities, which he has worked; by his justice, which he has worked, he shall live. 23 How could it be my will that an impious man should die, says the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways and live? 24 But if a just man turns himself away from his justice, and does iniquity in accord with all the abominations that the impious man so often does, why should he live? All his justices, which he has accomplished, shall not be remembered. By the transgression, in which he has transgressed, and by his sin, in which he has sinned, by these he shall die. 25 And you have said, 'The way of the Lord is not fair.' Therefore, listen, O house of Israel. How could it be that my way is not fair? And is it not instead your ways that are perverse? 26 For when the just man turns himself away from his justice, and commits iniquity, he shall die by this; by the injustice that he has worked, he shall die. 27 And when the impious man turns himself away from his impiety, which he has done, and accomplishes judgment and justice, he shall cause his own soul to live. 28 For by considering and turning himself away from all his iniquities, which he has worked, he shall certainly live, and he shall not die.
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