⁹ Hide your face from my sins,
    and blot out all my iniquities.^(A)

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
    and passing over the transgression
    of the remnant of his possession?
He does not retain his anger forever
    because he delights in showing steadfast love.^(A)
19 He will again have compassion upon us;
    he will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all our^[a] sins
    into the depths of the sea.^(B)

¹⁷ Surely it was for my welfare
    that I had great bitterness,
but you have held back^[a] my life
    from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
    behind your back.^(A)

¹ Have mercy on me, O God,
    according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy,
    blot out my transgressions.^(A)