Bless the LORD who forgives and remembers dust: Compassion, justice, and remembered dust

The same LORD executes justice for the oppressed and makes ways known to Moses

The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

Compassion here is not a private mood. It includes judgment for oppressed people and the old confession from Israel's story: merciful, gracious, slow to anger. Moses and the children of Israel keep the hymn inside that memory. Slow anger is not the absence of anger, and not-dealing-after-sins is mercy, not a claim that harm has no consequences.

Heaven-high mercy and east-from-west removal rest on a God who remembers dust

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

East from west is thorough removal of confessed transgression. It does not erase restitution, memory, legal reporting, or safeguarding. Father-pity is compassion toward those who fear him, not a license for human fathers to be cruel or for churches to hide harm. Dust is the frame God knows. The unit teaches compassion, not prosperity.