Psalms 51:4

thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; 1 Like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3Why dost thou, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in thy mischief? 1 All the day

5Thou hast loved wickedness more than goodness; 1 Unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 9:6He that sheds man’s blood, instead of that blood shall his own be shed, for in the image of God I made man.

Genesis 38:7And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked before the Lord; and God killed him.

Leviticus 5:19For he has surely been guilty of transgression before the Lord.

2 Samuel 12:9Why hast thou set at nought the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his eyes? thou hast slain Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and thou hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and thou hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2 Kings 17:17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.

Psalms 50:4Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, 1 And cleanse me from my sin. 1

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 →

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