Psalms 25:7

Amplified Bible

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; According to Your lovingkindness remember me, For Your goodness' sake, O LORD.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Do not remember the rebellious sins of my youth. Remember me in the light of your unfailing love, for you are merciful, O Lord .

English Revised Version
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy lovingkindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Update Bible Version
Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to your loving-kindness remember me, For your goodness' sake, O Yahweh.

New Century Version
Do not remember the sins and wrong things I did when I was young. But remember to love me always because you are good, Lord .

New English Translation
Do not hold against me the sins of my youth or my rebellious acts! Because you are faithful to me, extend to me your favor, O Lord !

Webster's Bible Translation
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

World English Bible
Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your lovingkindness, For your goodness' sake, Yahweh.

English Standard Version
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord !

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Haue thou not mynde on the trespassis of my yongthe; and on myn vnkunnyngis. Thou, Lord, haue mynde on me bi thi merci; for thi goodnesse.

Berean Standard Bible
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Forget each wrong I did when I was young. Show how truly kind you are and remember me.

American Standard Version
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me, For thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

Complete Jewish Bible
Don't remember my youthful sins or transgressions; but remember me according to your grace for the sake of your goodness, Adonai .

Darby Translation
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, Jehovah.

Easy-to-Read Version
Don't remember the sinful things I did when I was young. Because you are good, Lord , remember me with your faithful love.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions;

King James Version (1611)
Remember not the sinnes of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercie remember thou me, for thy goodnesse sake, O Lord.

New Life Bible
Do not remember my sins from when I was young, or my sinful ways. By Your loving-kindness remember me for You are good, O Lord.

New Revised Standard
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness' sake, O Lord !

Geneva Bible (1587)
Remember not the sinnes of my youth, nor my rebellions, but according to thy kindenesse remember thou me, euen for thy goodnesse sake, O Lord.

George Lamsa Translation
Remember not the foolishness of my youth, but according to thine abundant mercy remember thou me because of thy goodness sake, O God.

Good News Translation
Forgive the sins and errors of my youth. In your constant love and goodness, remember me, Lord !

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sins of my youth, and my transgressions, do not thou call to mind, - According to thine own lovingkindness, remember thou me, for the sake of thine own goodness, O Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(24-7) The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.

Revised Standard Version
Remember not the sins of my youth, or my transgressions; according to thy steadfast love remember me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Oh remember not thou the sinnes and offences of my youth: but accordyng to thy mercie euen of thy goodnesse O God remember me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my sins of ignorance: remember me according to thy mercy, for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not remember the sins of my youthor my acts of rebellion;in keeping with your faithful love, remember mebecause of your goodness, Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your lovingkindness, For your goodness' sake, LORD.

King James Version
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord .

Lexham English Bible
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions. According to your loyal love remember me if you will, for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh.

Literal Translation
Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my transgressions. According to Your mercy, remember me, for Your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation
Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oh remebre not ye synnes & offences of my youth, but acordinge vnto thy mercy thynke vpon me (O LORDE) for thy goodnesse.

THE MESSAGE
Forget that I sowed wild oats; Mark me with your sign of love. Plan only the best for me, God !

New American Standard Bible
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my wrongdoings; Remember me according to Your faithfulness, For Your goodness' sake, LORD.

New King James Version
Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; According to Your mercy remember me, For Your goodness' sake, O LORD.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; According to Your lovingkindness remember me, For Your goodness' sake, O Lord .

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;According to Your lovingkindness remember me,For the sake of Your goodness, O Yahweh.

Contextual Overview

¹To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul. ²O my God, in You I [have unwavering] trust [and I rely on You with steadfast confidence], Do not let me be ashamed or my hope in You be disappointed; Do not let my enemies triumph over me. ³Indeed, none of those who [expectantly] wait for You will be ashamed; Those who turn away from what is right and deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed (humiliated, embarrassed). ⁴Let me know Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths. ⁵Guide me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You [and only You] I wait [expectantly] all the day long. ⁶Remember, O LORD, Your [tender] compassion and Your lovingkindnesses, For they have been from of old. ⁷Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; According to Your lovingkindness remember me, For Your goodness' sake, O LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Remember: Psalms 79:8, Psalms 109:14, Psalms 109:16, Isaiah 38:17, Isaiah 43:25, Isaiah 64:9, Hebrews 8:12, Hebrews 10:16-18

the sins: Job 13:26, Job 20:11, Proverbs 5:7-14, Jeremiah 3:25, John 5:5, John 5:14

according: Psalms 51:1, Psalms 109:26, Psalms 119:124

for thy: Psalms 6:4, Psalms 31:16, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 2:4-8

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:29 - that God 1 Samuel 1:19 - and the Lord 2 Kings 20:3 - remember Nehemiah 5:19 - Think Nehemiah 13:22 - spare me Nehemiah 13:31 - Remember Job 10:2 - Do not Job 10:9 - Remember Psalms 106:4 - Remember Psalms 115:12 - hath Psalms 119:9 - shall Psalms 132:1 - remember Ecclesiastes 11:10 - remove Jeremiah 31:19 - I did Ezekiel 18:22 - his transgressions Ezekiel 29:16 - bringeth Hosea 7:2 - I remember Luke 18:13 - God James 5:11 - the Lord is

Cross-References

Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed [in faithful obedience] as the LORD had directed him; and Lot [his nephew] left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remember not the sins of my youth,.... Original sin, in which he was born, and the breakings forth of corrupt nature in infancy, he brought into the world with him, together with all the youthful lusts and vanities to which that age is addicted; and sometimes the sins of youth are in some persons remembered by God, and punished in old age; and if not, they are brought to remembrance through the dispensations of Providence: and the people of God are chastised for them then, and are ready to fear it is in a way of wrath; see Job 13:26; which the psalmist here deprecates; for this is not said in order to extenuate his sins, they being but youthful follies, imprudencies, and inadvertencies, sins committed through ignorance, when he had not the knowledge of things he now had; nor as if he had lived so holy a life, that there were no sins of his to be taken notice of but what he had committed in his younger days; but rather this is to be considered as a confession of his having sinned from his youth upwards unto that time, as in Jeremiah 3:25; and therefore entreat, that God would not remember his sins, so as to correct him for them in wrath and hot displeasure; neither the sins he had formerly been guilty of, nor those of a later date; which he next mentions;

nor my transgressions; his more notorious and glaring ones; such as murder and adultery, in the case of Uriah and Bathsheba, and which now stared him in the face; and on account of these, and as a chastening for them, this unnatural rebellion of his son's, which was now raised against him, was suffered to befall him, as had been foretold to him,

2 Samuel 12:11;

according to thy mercy remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O Lord; he pleads no merit nor goodness of his own, but casts himself upon the mercy, grace, and goodness of God; in which he was certainly right; and on that account prayed and hoped for deliverance from his present troubles, and for discoveries of the pardon of his sins unto him, which is what he means by remembering him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remember not the sins of my youth - In strong contrast with God, the psalmist brings forward his own conduct and life. He could ask of God Psalms 25:6 to remember His own acts - what “He himself” had done; but could not ask him to remember His conduct - His past life. He could only pray that this might be forgotten. He did not wish it to come into remembrance before God; he could not ask that God would deal with him according to that. He prays, therefore, that he might not be visited as he advanced in life with the fruits of his conduct in early years, but that all the offences of that period of his life might be forgiven and forgotten. Who is there that cannot with deep feeling join in this prayer? Who is there that has reached the period of middle or advanced life, who would be willing to have the follies of his youth, the plans, and thoughts, and wishes of his early years brought again to remembrance? Who would be willing to have recalled to his own mind, or made known to his friends, to society around him, or to assembled worlds, the thoughts, the purposes, the wishes, the “imaginings” of his youthful days? Who would dare to pray that he might be treated in advancing years as he treated God in his own early life? Nay, who would venture to pray that God would treat him in the day of judgment as he had treated the friends of his childhood, even the father who begat him, or the mother who bore him? Our hope in regard to the favor of God is that he will “not” summon up the thoughts and the purposes of our early years; that he will “not” treat us as if he remembered them; but that he will treat us as if they were forgotten.

Nor my transgressions - The sins of my early years.

According to thy mercy remember thou me - Deal with me, not according to strict justice, but according to mercy. Deal with me indeed according to thy nature and character; but let the attribute of mercy be that which will be the guide rather than the attribute of justice.

For thy goodness’ sake - In order that thy goodness or benevolence may be displayed and honored - not primarily and mainly that I may be saved, but that thy character may be seen to be good and merciful.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 25:7. Remember not the sins of my youth — Those which I have committed through inconsiderateness, and heat of passion.

According to thy mercy — As it is worthy of thy mercy to act according to the measure, the greatness, and general practice of thy mercy; so give me an abundant pardon, a plentiful salvation.

For thy goodness' sake — Goodness is the nature of God; mercy flows from that goodness.