Psalms 66:18
If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
In Context
17I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue.
19Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my supplication.
Cross References
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?
Job 36:21Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity : for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.
Proverbs 15:29The Lord is far from the wicked: and he will hear the prayers of the just.
Proverbs 28:9He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be as abomination.
John 9:31Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God, and doth his will, him he heareth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 66:14-20
David Resolves to Praise God; David Declaring What God Has Done for His Soul. 13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, 14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. 15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah. 16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul. 17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. 18… Read the whole commentary →