Psalms 51:5
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- KJV
- Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- WEB
- Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
- ASV
- Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
- DARBY
- Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- BLB
- Behold, in iniquity I was brought forth, and in sin my mother conceived me.
- ÅB
- Se, jeg er født i misgjerning, og min mor har undfanget meg i synd.
- OTB
- Se, jeg ble født i skyld,
Og i synd ble jeg unnfanget av min mor. - B1930
- Se, jeg er født i misgjerning, og min mor har undfanget mig i synd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Read in contextJob 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Read in contextPsalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Read in contextJob 15:14–16
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Read in contextEphesians 2:3
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Read in contextJohn 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Read in contextGenesis 5:3
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Read in contextGenesis 8:21
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
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