Psalms 51:5
I have been a sinner since the day that I was born; truly, I have been like that since my mother conceived me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
In Context
6What you desire is that I desire what is true in order that you can teach me how to act wisely.
Cross References
Genesis 8:21When Yahweh smelled the pleasant odor, he was pleased with the sacrifice. Then he said to himself, “I will never again devastate everything on the earth because of the sinful things people do. Even though everything that people think is evil from the time they are young, I will not destroy all the living creatures again, as I did this time.
Job 14:4People are sinners from the time when they are born; who can cause them to be sinless? No one [RHQ]!
Psalms 58:3Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
Romans 5:12What you can learn from what I have written so far is as follows: All people are sinful [PRS], and that is the result of Adam, the first man whom God created, sinning long ago. Adam died [PRS] because he sinned. So, all people who have lived since then die, because it is as though all people sinned when Adam 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 →