For the LORD will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants.
NIV
For the Lord will judge and vindicate His people, and He will delay His judgments [manifesting His righteousness and mercy] and take into favor His servants [those who meet His terms of separation unto Him]. [Heb. 10:30.]AMP
For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
KJV
Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.
NIV
O do not [earnestly] remember against us the iniquities and guilt of our forefathers! Let Your compassion and tender mercy speedily come to meet us, for we are brought very low.
AMP
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
KJV
For their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.
NIV
And He [earnestly] remembered for their sake His covenant and relented their sentence of evil [comforting and easing Himself] according to the abundance of His mercy and loving-kindness [when they cried out to Him].
AMP
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
KJV
"Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and will all turn from their wicked ways, for the anger and wrath pronounced against this people by the LORD are great."
NIV
It may be that they will make their supplication [for mercy] before the Lord, and each one will turn back from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.
AMP
It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
KJV
