'Iniquities' in the Bible
For my iniquities have gone over my head [like the waves of a flood];As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
For innumerable evils have encompassed me;My sins have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see.They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,And my heart has failed me.
Hide Your face from my sinsAnd blot out all my iniquities.
Wickedness and guilt prevail against me;Yet as for our transgressions,You forgive them [removing them from Your sight].
O do not remember against us the sins and guilt of our forefathers.Let Your compassion and mercy come quickly to meet us,For we have been brought very low.
You have placed our wickedness before you,Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.
He has not dealt with us according to our sins [as we deserve],Nor rewarded us [with punishment] according to our wickedness.
Fools, because of their rebellious way,And because of their sins, were afflicted.