Psalm 130:3

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If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.

"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?

If I had sinned, then you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.

"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?

All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all.

And when they persisted in asking him, straightening up he said to them, "The [one] of you without sin, let him throw the first stone at her!"

For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

Hear, O Yahweh, my voice [when] I call, and be gracious to me and answer me.

"Blessed [are they] whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins are covered over.