Psalms 51:9

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

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Read Psalms 51:9 in the flow of Psalms51 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Psalms51 to see the surrounding context.

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 51:9 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 19:18Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
  2. Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
  3. Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
  4. Isaiah 1:18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
  5. Isaiah 38:17Surely 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.
  6. Jeremiah 16:17For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
  7. Ezekiel 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
  8. Micah 7:18Who 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?
  9. Colossians 2:14having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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