5. because no one can endurethe brightness of your glory.No one can resist the furyof your threat against sinners.
6. But your promised merciesare beyond measure and imagination,
7. abecause you are the highest, Lord,kind, patient, and merciful,and you feel sorry over human troubles.SyriacbYou, Lord, according toyour gentle grace,promised forgiveness to thosewho are sorry for their sins.In your great mercy,you allowed sinners to turnfrom their sins and find salvation.
8. Therefore, Lord,God of those who do what is right,you didn’t offerAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who didn’t sin against you,a chance to change their hearts and lives.But you offer me, the sinner,the chance to change my heart and life,