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Psalms 51:3

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

KJV

Quid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es in iniquitate ?

Vulgate

Τί ἐνκαυχᾷ ἐν κακίᾳ, ὁ δυνατός, ἀνομίαν ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν;

LXX

For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.

ASV

חָנֵּ֣/נִי אֱלֹהִ֣ים כְּ/חַסְדֶּ֑/ךָ כְּ/רֹ֥ב רַ֝חֲמֶ֗י/ךָ מְחֵ֣ה פְשָׁעָֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

וֹ
v
noun · 246×
י
y
noun · 93×
יִמָּחֶ֥ה
ymchh
verb · 35×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
ךָ
k
noun · 45×
נִי
ny
verb · 79×
רֹ֣ב
rb
noun · 149×

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 20.—How It is that Cain’s Line Terminates in the Eighth Generation, While Noah, Though Descended from the Same Father, Adam, is Found to Be the Tenth from Him. Some one will say, If the writer of this history intended, in enumerating the generations from Adam through his son Seth, to descend through them to Noah, in whose time the deluge occurred, and from him again to …
Abba Antony said to Abba Poemen, "This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God and to expect temptation to his last breath."
Abba Moses said, "If a man does not think in his heart that he is a sinner, God will not hear him." The brother asked, "What does it mean to think in his heart that he is a sinner?" The old man said, "When someone is occupied with his own faults, he does not see those of his neighbor."
Before you can speak peace to your hearts, you must be made to see, made to feel, made to weep over, made to bewail, your actual transgressions against the law of God. Before we can have peace with God, we must be justified by faith through our Lord Jesus Christ; and in order to be justified, we must first be convinced of sin.
Q. What is the dying of the old self? A. It is to be genuinely sorry for sin, to hate it more and more, and to run away from it.
'Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness.' See Ps. li. 1. David, the king and prophet, having sinned with Bathsheba, was reproved by Nathan the prophet. And he who had been bold enough to commit the sin was not too proud to confess it. Out of this deep humiliation he composed this Psalm, which the whole Church now uses as her own prayer. For who does not need…

Cross-references

  • Isa 59:12 — For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
  • Jer 3:25 — We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD o
  • Jer 14:20 — We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
  • Job 33:27 — He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
  • Lev 13:45 — And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
  • Lev 16:21 — And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon
  • Lev 26:40 — If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
  • Luke 15:18 — I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
  • Luke 15:18 — I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
  • Neh 9:2 — And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
  • Prov 28:13 — He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
  • Ps 32:5 — I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
  • Ps 32:5 — I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
  • Ps 38:18 — For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
  • Ps 38:18 — For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
  • Ps 40:12 — For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.