Isaiah 43:22 RSV — “Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!
Isaiah 43:25 RSV — “I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Although Jacob’s people deny and forget God repeatedly, he does not withhold forgiveness.
The phrase “for my own sake” stands out for the human truth that when we forgive those who wrong us, we are blessed.
