God’s Compassion on Israel

14 Shepherd with Your staff Your people,

the flock of Your inheritance.

They live alone in a woodland,

surrounded by pastures.[fn]

Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead,

as in the days of old.

15 As in the days when you came out of Egypt,

I will show My wonders.

16 Nations will see and be ashamed,

deprived of all their might.

They will put their hands over their mouths,

and their ears will become deaf.

17 They will lick the dust like a snake,

like reptiles slithering on the ground.

They will crawl from their holes

in the presence of the LORD our God;

they will tremble in fear of You.

18 Who is a God like You,

who pardons iniquity

and passes over the transgression

of the remnant of His inheritance—

who does not retain His anger forever,

because He delights in loving devotion?[fn]

19 He will again have compassion on us;

He will vanquish our iniquities.

You will cast out all our sins

into the depths of the sea.

20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob

and loving devotion to Abraham,

as You swore to our fathers

from the days of old.