23. Later he will rise up and repay them,requiting each one as they deserve.
24. But to the penitent he provides a way backand encourages those who are losing hope!
25. Turn back to the Lord and give up your sins,pray before him and make your offenses few.
26. Turn again to the Most High and away from iniquity,and hate intensely what he loathes.
27. Who in Sheol can glorify the Most Highin place of the living who offer their praise?
28. The dead can no more give praise than those who have never lived;they who are alive and well glorify the Lord.
29. How great is the mercy of the Lord,and his forgiveness for those who return to him!
30. For not everything is within human reach,since human beings are not immortal.
31. Is anything brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed.How worthless then the thoughts of flesh and blood!