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Psalms 51:9

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Conscience;   Conviction;   Desire;   Homicide;   Prayer;   Remorse;   Repentance;   Sin;   Scofield Reference Index - Bible Prayers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cleansing;   David;   Defilement-Cleansing;   Water;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hyssop;   Nathan;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Repentance;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Spirituality;   Teach, Teacher;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Desertion;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Blot;   Repentance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Face;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Joy;   Man;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bath-sheba;   David;   God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blot;   Face;   Forgiveness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Color;   Hyssop;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 20;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Turn your face away from my sinsand blot out all my guilt.
Hebrew Names Version
Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all of my iniquities.
King James Version
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
English Standard Version
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
New Century Version
Turn your face from my sins and wipe out all my guilt.
New English Translation
Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt!
New American Standard Bible
Hide Your face from my sins And wipe out all my guilty deeds.
World English Bible
Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all of my iniquities.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hide thy face from my sinnes, and put away all mine iniquities.
Legacy Standard Bible
Hide Your face from my sinsAnd blot out all my iniquities.
Berean Standard Bible
Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
Contemporary English Version
Turn your eyes from my sin and cover my guilt.
Complete Jewish Bible
Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Darby Translation
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't look at my sins. Erase them all.
George Lamsa Translation
Turn thy face away from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Good News Translation
Close your eyes to my sins and wipe out all my evil.
Lexham English Bible
Hide your face from my sins, and all my iniquities blot out.
Literal Translation
Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Turne thy face fro my synnes, and put out all my my?dedes.
American Standard Version
Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.
Bible in Basic English
Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
King James Version (1611)
Hide thy face from my sinnes; and blot out all mine iniquities.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Turne thy face from my sinnes: and wype out all my misdeedes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
English Revised Version
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Turne awei thi face fro my synnes; and do awei alle my wickidnesses.
Update Bible Version
Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
New King James Version
Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.
New Living Translation
Don't keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt.
New Life Bible
Hide Your face from my sins. And take away all my wrong-doing.
New Revised Standard
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hide thy face from my sins, - And, all mine iniquities, blot out;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(50-11) Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Revised Standard Version
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Young's Literal Translation
Hide Thy face from my sin. And all mine iniquities blot out.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities.

Contextual Overview

7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 8Make me hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; Let the bones which You have broken rejoice. 9Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities.10Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a right and steadfast spirit within me. 11Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit. 13Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted and return to You.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

blot: Psalms 51:1, Colossians 2:14

Reciprocal: Numbers 5:23 - blot Nehemiah 4:5 - their sin Job 20:14 - his meat Psalms 25:18 - forgive Psalms 109:15 - before Isaiah 43:25 - even I Isaiah 44:22 - blotted Zechariah 3:4 - I have Matthew 7:5 - first Luke 6:42 - cast Acts 1:15 - Peter Acts 3:19 - that Romans 4:7 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hide thy face from my sins,.... In whose sight they were committed, being now ashamed of them himself, and ashamed that any should see them, and especially his God; and being filthy and nauseous, he knew they must be abominable to him, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity; and being breaches of his law, must be offensive to him, and provoke the eyes of his glory; and were such that he knew would not bear the examination of justice; and that if God was strict to mark them, he could not stand before him: moreover, in this petition the psalmist deprecates a severe chastisement of them, which is sometimes expressed by setting sins before him, Psalms 90:8; and entreats the pardon of them, or oblivion and non-remembrance of them, that they might be cast behind his back, and into the depths of the sea;

and blot out all mine iniquities; as in Psalms 51:1; here repeated, to show his deep sense of them, and his great importunity for the forgiveness of them; and adds the word all, including all his other sins, with those he had lately committed; for he knew that, if anyone, was left unpardoned, he could never answer for it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hide thy face from my sins - That is, Do not look on them; avert thy face from them; do not regard them. Compare the notes at Psalms 13:1.

And blot out all mine iniquities - Take them entirely away. Let the account be erased, cancelled, destroyed. See the notes at Psalms 51:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 51:9. Hide thy face from my sins — The sentiment here is nearly the same as that in Psalms 51:3: His sin was ever before his own face; and he knew that the eye of God was constantly upon him, and that his purity and justice must be highly incensed on the account. He therefore, with a just horror of his transgressions, begs God to turn away his face from them, and to blot them out, so that they may never more be seen. Psalms 51:1.


 
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