Psalms 51:3
Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
In Context
2When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech.
4All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:40until they confess their iniquities, and those of their ancestors, by which they have transgressed against me and walked as adversaries to me.
Job 33:27He will consider mankind, and he will say: “I have sinned and truly I have offended, yet I was not treated as I deserved.”
Psalms 41:5These things I have remembered; and my soul within me, I have poured out. For I will cross into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, all the way to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and confession, the sound of feasting.
Isaiah 43:25I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins.
Jeremiah 3:25We will sleep in our confusion, and our disgrace will cover us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God: we and our fathers, from our youth, even to this day. And we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:2-7
Penitential Petitions. 1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 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. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my… Read the whole commentary →