Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
⛓ Read Micah 7 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God who 'pardons iniquity' and 'will tread our iniquities underfoot' delighting in steadfast love supports the faithfulness and justice of God in forgiving. The prophetic confidence in pardon resonates.
Medium confidence'Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity... he will tread our iniquities underfoot.' The hymn to the God who uniquely forgives stands behind the assumption that forgiveness is a divine, not human, act, which Jesus nonetheless exercises.
Medium confidence'Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity... he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea' echoes the rhetorical 'who can forgive but God?' and the pardon motif. Faint; offered for recurrence of the God-alone-pardons theme.
Low confidenceThe astonished question 'Who is this who even forgives sins?' presupposes the prophetic confession that God alone pardons iniquity and casts sins into the sea, so the scene quietly trades on Israel's conviction that forgiveness is a divine prerogative. The link is conceptual and supports the christological force of the pericope.
Low confidence