Psalm 103:12 {102:12}
Good News Translation
As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our sins from us.

New Revised Standard Version
as far as the east is from the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us.

Contemporary English Version
How far has the LORD taken our sins from us? Farther than the distance from east to west!

New American Bible
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our sins from us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

as the east

Psalm 50:1 A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:

Psalm 113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.

Isaiah 45:6 That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they who are from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else:

so far

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 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.

Micah 7:18 Who 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.

Hebrews 10:2 For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Context
Bless the LORD, O My Soul
11For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him. 12As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.13As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord compassion on them that fear him:…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:26
For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world. But now once, at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

Psalm 32:5
I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.

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.

Zechariah 3:9
For behold the stone that I have laid before Jesus: upon one stone there are seven eyes: behold I will grave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will take away the iniquity of that land in one day.

Psalm 103:11
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