Psalms 103:12 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 103:12

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

KJV

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ASV

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.

YLT

As the distance of east from west He hath put far from us our transgressions.

DBT

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

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Though it is of our own benefit, by the pardoning mercy of God, that we are to take the comfort, yet of the benefit others have by it we must give him the glory. Observe, (1.) The transcendent riches of God's mercy (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): As far as the east is from the west (which two quarters of the world are of greatest extent, because all known and inhabited, and therefore geographers that way reckon their longitudes) so far has he removed our transgressions from us, so that they shall never be laid to our charge, nor rise up in judgment against us.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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PSA 103:12ISA 43:25 HEB 8:12
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PSA 103:12ISA 43:25 MIC 7:18-19
PSA 103:12ISA 43:25 HEB 10:17
PSA 103:12ISA 43:25 JER 31:34
PSA 103:12ISA 43:25 ISA 1:18
PSA 103:121JN 1:7 EPH 5:8
PSA 103:12MIC 7:18 ISA 43:25
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 103:121JN 1:7 ROM 13:12

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