Psalms 51:5
You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
In Context
4All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.
6You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.
Cross References
Genesis 8:21And the Lord smelled the sweet odor and said: “I will no longer curse the earth because of man. For the feelings and thoughts of the heart of man are prone to evil from his youth. Therefore, I will no longer pierce every living soul as I have done.
Job 14:4Who can make him clean who is conceived of unclean seed? Are you not the only one who can?
Psalms 58:3Rescue me from those who work iniquity, and save me from men of blood.
Romans 5:12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into this world, and through sin, death; so also death was transferred to all men, to all who have sinned.
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 →