Footnote

a One scholar says that the Hebrew metaphor used at Micah 7:18 is “taken from the conduct of a traveller who passes on without noticing an object to which he does not wish to give his attention. The idea which it communicates is not, that God is unobservant of sin, or that it is regarded by him as a matter of little or no importance, but that he does not mark it in particular cases with a view to punishment; that he does not punish, but forgive[s].”​—Judges 3:26; 1 Samuel 16:8.