And He Himself will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. The final verse extends redemption from the individual speaker to the entire people, suggesting that personal forgiveness participates in cosmic restoration. The emphatic He Himself underscores divine agency and personal attention; redemption is not a mechanical process but God's own undertaking. The phrase from all his iniquities echoes verse 3's concern with divine marking of sin, now revealing that divine action explicitly encompasses release from accumulated guilt. This verse completes the movement from depths to redemption, from guilt's acknowledgment to mercy's realization, from individual confession to corporate transformation. The psalm ends not with human achievement but with announcement of what God does.

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