| Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting. | Just so, I tell 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. | Give heed to my reproof; I will pour out my thoughts to 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 sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. |
| Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! | Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near. |
| Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. | Let us test and examine our ways, and return 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!’ | But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and 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. | When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it. |
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