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I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

Competence to age is supplementary youth; a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had.

Besides my daylight servitude, I served over again all night in my sleep, and would awake with terrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my accounts, and the like.

The phantom of the next day, with the dreary five to follow, sate as a load upon my poor Sabbath recreations.

A phase of my life was closing to-night, a new one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

My world had for some years been in Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

But let me not hate and despise myself too much for these feelings; I know them to be wrong—that is a great step gained; I shall strive to overcome them.