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Psalms 51:3

RepentanceSinGuilt and conscience

1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

4 Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

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BSB
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
KJV
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
WEB
For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
ASV
For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.
DARBY
For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is continually before me.
BLB
For I know my transgressions, and my sin [is] before me continually.
ÅB
For mine overtredelser kjenner jeg, og min synd er alltid for meg.
OTB
For jeg kjenner mine overtredelser,
Og min synd er alltid for meg.
B1930
For mine overtredelser kjenner jeg, og min synd er alltid for mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Proverbs 28:13

    He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

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  • Isaiah 59:12

    For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

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  • Psalms 38:18

    Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

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  • Psalms 32:5

    Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

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  • Luke 15:18–21

    I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

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  • Leviticus 26:40–41

    But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

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  • Jeremiah 3:25

    Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

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  • Job 33:27

    Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

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