| Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting. | Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. |
| Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you. | Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. |
| The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart. | The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise. |
| Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! | Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand! |
| Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. | Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord. |
| But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ | And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ |
| God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it. | Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it. |
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