Psalms 103:12

Forgiveness Guilt and conscience Shame

¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

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

¹³ As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

¹⁴ For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust.

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

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BSB: As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
KJV: As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
WEB: As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
ASV: As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
DARBY: As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
BLB: As far as the east [is] from the west, [so] has He put our transgressions far from us.

ÅB: Så langt som øst er fra vest, lar han våre misgjerninger være langt fra oss.
OTB: Så langt som øst er fra vest,
Så langt har Han tatt bort våre overtredelser fra oss.
B1930: Så langt som øst er fra vest, lar han våre misgjerninger være langt fra oss.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
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1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
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Micah 7:18
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?
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Isaiah 38:17
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
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Jeremiah 31:34
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
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Hebrews 10:2
If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
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2 Samuel 12:13
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
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Jeremiah 50:20
In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
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