Micah 7:18-20
(18) Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
(19) He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
(20) You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
It's pretty easy for me to read the Old Testament with an eye toward God's justice and wrath. I think that the Old Testament partly exists to show us that God takes things very seriously and that He is indeed just. However, there are moments of great hope in here.
Think about all the promises of wrath in the Prophets as well as the times when that wrath was poured out. Israel blew it. Yet here God promises mercy to His remant. Personally, I haven't quite decided how this relates to national Israel compared to us Gentiles. But what I do know is that either way it shows that God is indeed abounding in lovingkindness.
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