Psalms 51:9
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
In Context
8Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Isaiah 1:18“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
Micah 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:8-14
Penitential Petitions. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach… Read the whole commentary →