If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’
keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
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