Psalm 51:9 “Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.”

Psalm 51:9

Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

World English Bible

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

American Standard Version

Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

Geneva Bible 1599

Hide thy face from my sinnes, and put away all mine iniquities.

Darby Translation

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Young's Literal Translation

Hide Thy face from my sin. And all mine iniquities blot out.

Bible in Basic English

Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

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Cross references

“Hide”

Jeremiah 16:17 Isaiah 38:17 Micah 7:18 Micah 7:19

Jeremiah 16:17 · BSB

For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

Isaiah 38:17 · BSB

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Micah 7:18 · BSB

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Micah 7:19 · BSB

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

“blot”

Colossians 2:14 Psalm 51:1

Colossians 2:14 · BSB

having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

Psalm 51:1 · BSB

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

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