Psalms 51:4
Against You, You only, I have sinned, || And done evil in Your eyes, || So that You are righteous in Your words, || You are pure in Your judging.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
3For I know my transgressions, || And my sin [is] continually before me.
5Behold, I have been brought forth in iniquity, || And my mother conceives me in sin.
Cross References
Genesis 9:6whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Genesis 38:7and Er, Judah’s firstborn, is evil in the eyes of YHWH, and YHWH puts him to death.
Leviticus 5:19it [is] a guilt-offering; he has certainly been guilty before YHWH.”
2 Samuel 12:9Why have you despised the word of YHWH, to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriah the Hittite by the sword, and you have taken his wife for a wife for yourself, and you have slain him by the sword of the sons of Ammon.
2 Kings 17:17and cause their sons and their daughters to pass over through fire, and divine divinations, and use enchantments, and sell themselves to do evil in the eyes of YHWH, to provoke Him.
Psalms 50:4He calls to the heavens from above, || And to the earth, to judge His people.
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 →