Micah 7:19
Good News Translation
You will be merciful to us once again. You will trample our sins underfoot and send them to the bottom of the sea!

New Revised Standard Version
He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Contemporary English Version
and pleased to be merciful. You will trample on our sins and throw them in the sea.

New American Bible
And will again have compassion on us, treading underfoot our iniquities? You will cast into the depths of the sea all our sins;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.

turn.

Deuteronomy 30:3 The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.

Deuteronomy 32:36 The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.

Ezra 9:8,9 And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made before the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us a little life in our bondage. . . .

Psalm 90:13,14 Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants. . . .

Isaiah 63:15-17 Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back themselves from me. . . .

Jeremiah 31:20 Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 3:32 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.

Hosea 14:4 I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

subdue.

Deuteronomy 30:6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

Psalm 130:8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Ezekiel 11:19,20 And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in their bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh: . . .

Ezekiel 36:25-27 And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. . . .

Romans 6:14,17-22 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace. . . .

Romans 7:23-25 But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members. . . .

Romans 8:2,3,13 For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death. . . .

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

James 4:5,6 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you? . . .

1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

cast.

Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.

Isaiah 38:17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Jeremiah 50:20 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sin of Juda, and there shall none be found: for I will be merciful to them, whom I shall leave.

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed.

Context
God's Compassion on Israel
18Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. 19He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.…
Cross References
Hebrews 8:12
Because I will be merciful to their iniquities: and their sins I will remember no more.

Isaiah 33:24
Neither shall he that is near, say: I am feeble. The people that dwell therein, shall have their iniquity taken away from them.

Isaiah 38:17
Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Isaiah 43:25
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 33:8
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me: and I will forgive all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and despised me.

Jeremiah 50:20
In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sin of Juda, and there shall none be found: for I will be merciful to them, whom I shall leave.

Ezekiel 18:22
I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.

Hosea 14:2
Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

Zechariah 3:4
Who answered, and said to them that stood before him, saying: Take away the filthy garments from him. And he said to him: Behold I have taken away thy iniquity, and have clothed thee with change of garments.

Micah 7:18
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