Micah 7:20

God's faithfulness God's love Covenant and promises

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

¹⁹ He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
KJV: Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
WEB: You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
ASV: Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the lovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
DARBY: Thou wilt perform truth to Jacob, loving-kindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers, from the days of old.
BLB: You will give forth faithfulness to Jacob, loving devotion to Abraham, which You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

ÅB: Du skal vise Jakob trofasthet,
Abraham miskunn,
som du har svoret fedrene våre
fra gammel tid.
[^1]: Den dagen profetene har forkynt.
[^2]: Fra alle land, enten de ligger mellom hav eller fjell.
[^3]: Navnet Mika betyr «Hvem er som Herren?»
OTB: Du vil gi sannhet til Jakob
Og nåde til Abraham,
Som Du sverget til våre forfedre
Fra gamle dager.
B1930: Du skal vise Jakob trofasthet, Abraham miskunnhet, som du har svoret våre fedre fra fordums dager.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Genesis 28:13–14
And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
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Luke 1:72–74
to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,
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Genesis 17:7–8
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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Genesis 12:2–3
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
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Genesis 22:16–18
saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
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Psalms 105:8–10
He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
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Hebrews 6:13–18
When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
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Acts 3:25–26
And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
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