Psalms 51:9
“Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
In Context
8The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:
Cross References
Job 9:30If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,
Isaiah 1:18And then approach and accuse me, says the Lord. Then, if your sins are like scarlet, they shall be made white like snow; and if they are red like vermillion, they shall become white like wool.
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are upon all their ways. They have not been hidden from my face, and their iniquity has not been concealed from my eyes.
Micah 7:18What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:8-14
Penitential Petitions. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach… Read the whole commentary →