4. When you show your power,all creation trembles.
5. Your glorious splendour is overwhelming,and your anger is more than sinners can endure.
6. But the mercy you promise is also greaterthan we can understand or measure.
7. For you are the Lord Most High;you are patient and show mercy and compassion.You make our punishment easier to bearwhen we suffer for our sins.O Lord, in your great goodness and mercyyou promise forgiveness and salvationto those who repent of their sin against you.
8. You, Lord, are the God of righteous people.Repentance was not necessaryfor Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,for they did not sin against you.But for sinners like meyou have made repentance possible.
9. I have committed more sinsthan there are grains of sand along the seashore.They are so many, Lord, they are so many.I have done so much that is wrongthat I am not worthy to turn my face towards heaven.