Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.
New American Standard Bible
As for our transgressions, You
King James Version
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Holman Bible
only You can atone for
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.
Themes
Choosing/chosen » Those that are chosen of the lord
Cleansing » Ps 51 » Spiritual promised
God's Promises » Of cleansing » Spiritual promised
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 65:3
Prayers for Psalm 65:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Care For The Earth
2 Hearer of prayer, to Thee all flesh cometh. 3 Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them. 4 O the happiness of him whom Thou choosest, And drawest near, he inhabiteth Thy courts, We are satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, Thy holy temple.
Cross References
Psalm 38:4
For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden -- too heavy for me.
Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God of our salvation, Because of the honour of Thy name, And deliver us, and cover over our sins, For Thy name's sake.
Psalm 40:12
For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.
Isaiah 6:7
and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: 'Lo, this hath stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity, And thy sin is covered.'
Hebrews 9:14
how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
2 Samuel 12:7-13
And Nathan saith unto David, 'Thou art the man! Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I anointed thee for king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
Psalm 51:2-3
Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,
Psalm 51:7
Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter.
Isaiah 1:18-19
Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
Micah 7:8-9
Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me.
Zechariah 13:1
In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.
John 1:29
on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;
Romans 7:23-25
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.
Galatians 5:17
for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;
1 John 1:7-9
and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,