Psalms 51:3
You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
In Context
2your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit. 1
4You have loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue. 1
Cross References
Leviticus 26:40And they shall confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me,
Job 33:27Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.
Psalms 41:5Therefore are you very sad, O my soul? and therefore do you trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the salvation of my countenance. 1
Isaiah 43:25+ 43:25 Gr. I am, I am I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and your sins; and I will not remember them.
Jeremiah 3:25We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us: because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God.
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 →