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Micah 7:19
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Micah, prophet to Judah, addresses the remnant of God's inheritance in a passage that shifts from communal lament (7:1–6) to a doxology of hope (7:8–20). This verse sits between the rhetorical question "Who is a God like You?" (v18) and the appeal to covenant faithfulness (v20).
The words — יִכְבֹּשׁ (yikh.Bosh, "he will subdue") treats iniquity as an adversary to be vanquished rather than a debt to be cancelled. The image is military, not judicial.
The thread — Isaiah 43:25 declares that God blots out transgressions and remembers sins no more; Isaiah 38:17 speaks of deliverance from the pit of oblivion. Both echo the same move: God's action removes the record entirely.
Why it lands — The verse places the reader on the receiving end of a completed act: God has already subdued and cast away. It asks nothing except that the reader stop treating their iniquity as an ongoing claim.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Cross-references
- 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.
- Isaiah 43:25 I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- 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.”
- Psalms 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
- 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.
- Titus 2:14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Romans 8:2 For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
- 1 John 3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
- Psalms 130:8 And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.