Parallel Verses

King James Version

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

New American Standard Bible

Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our transgressions, You forgive them.

Holman Bible

Iniquities overwhelm me;
only You can atone for our rebellions.

International Standard Version

My acts of iniquity they overwhelm me! Our transgressions you blot them out!

A Conservative Version

Iniquities prevail against me. As for our transgressions, thou will forgive them.

American Standard Version

Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Amplified


Wickedness and guilt prevail against me;
Yet as for our transgressions,
You forgive them [removing them from Your sight].

Bible in Basic English

Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

Darby Translation

Iniquities have prevailed against me: our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Julia Smith Translation

The words of iniquities were strong above me: our transgressions thou wilt cover them.

King James 2000

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Iniquities prevail over me. As for our transgressions, you will {forgive} them.

Modern King James verseion

Things of iniquity are mightier than I; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Our misdeeds prevail against us; O be thou merciful unto our sins.

NET Bible

Our record of sins overwhelms me, but you forgive our acts of rebellion.

New Heart English Bible

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

The Emphasized Bible

Iniquitous things, have been too strong for me, As for our transgressions, wilt, thou, by propitiation remove them.

Webster

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

World English Bible

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

Youngs Literal Translation

Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.

Context Readings

God's Care For The Earth

2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. 3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. 4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.


Cross References

Psalm 38:4

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Psalm 79:9

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Isaiah 6:7

And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Hebrews 9:14

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

2 Samuel 12:7-13

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

Psalm 51:2-3

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51:7

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Isaiah 1:18-19

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Micah 7:8-9

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

Zechariah 13:1

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

John 1:29

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Romans 7:23-25

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

1 John 1:7-9

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Revelation 1:5

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

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