Psalms 38:18

Douay-Rheims Bible

(37-19) For I will declare my iniquity: and I will think of my sin.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I confess my iniquity;I am anxious because of my sin.

Hebrew Names Version
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

King James Version
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

English Standard Version
I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.

New Century Version
I confess my guilt; I am troubled by my sin.

New English Translation
Yes, I confess my wrongdoing, and I am concerned about my sins.

Amplified Bible
For I do confess my guilt and iniquity; I am filled with anxiety because of my sin.

New American Standard Bible
For I admit my guilt; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

World English Bible
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

Geneva Bible (1587)
When I declare my paine, and am sory for my sinne,

Legacy Standard Bible
For I confess my iniquity;I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

Berean Standard Bible
Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

Contemporary English Version
I told you my sins, and I am sorry for them.

Complete Jewish Bible
For I am about to fall, and my pain is always with me.

Darby Translation
For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord, I told you about the evil I have done. I am sorry for my sin.

George Lamsa Translation
I will declare mine iniquity to thee; I will purify myself of my sins.

Good News Translation
I confess my sins; they fill me with anxiety.

Lexham English Bible
For my iniquity I confess; I am anxious because of my sin.

Literal Translation
For I will confess my perversity; I am anxious from my sin.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I cofesse my wickednesse, & my synne greueth me.

American Standard Version
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Bible in Basic English
I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

King James Version (1611)
For I will declare mine iniquitie; I will be sory for my sinne.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Because I confesse my wickednesse: and am sory for my sinne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For I will declare mine iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.

English Revised Version
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y schal telle my wickidnesse; and Y schal thenke for my synne.

Update Bible Version
For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

New King James Version
For I will declare my iniquity; I will be in anguish over my sin.

New Living Translation
But I confess my sins; I am deeply sorry for what I have done.

New Life Bible
For I tell my wrong-doings. I am full of sorrow because of my sin.

New Revised Standard
I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, mine iniquity, will I declare, I shall be anxious because of my sin;

Revised Standard Version
I confess my iniquity, I am sorry for my sin.

Young's Literal Translation
For mine iniquity I declare, I am sorry for my sin.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I confess my iniquity; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

Contextual Overview

¹² (37-13) And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long. ¹³ (37-14) But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening his mouth. ¹⁴ (37-15) And I became as a man that heareth not: and that hath no reproofs in his mouth. ¹⁵ (37-16) For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God. ¹⁶ (37-17) For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me. ¹⁷ (37-18) For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me. ¹⁸ (37-19) For I will declare my iniquity: and I will think of my sin. ¹⁹ (37-20) But my enemies live, and are stronger than I: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. ²⁰ (37-21) They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I followed goodness. ²¹ (37-22) For sake me not, O Lord my God: do not thou depart from me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: Psalms 32:5, Psalms 51:3, Job 31:33, Job 33:27, Proverbs 28:13

sorry: 2 Corinthians 7:7-11

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:20 - Indeed Psalms 102:10 - Because Psalms 119:26 - declared Luke 7:38 - weeping Luke 22:62 - and wept

Cross-References

Genesis 38:25
But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in law, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child. See whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is.

Genesis 38:26
But he acknowledging the gifts, said: She is juster than I: because I did not give her to Sela, my son. However he knew her no more.

Jeremiah 22:24
As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda were a ring on my right hand, I would pluck him thence.

Hosea 4:11
Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.

Luke 15:22
And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe and put it on him: and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will declare mine iniquity,.... Either to men, to ease his mind, justify God in his proceedings with him, and for their caution and admonition: or rather to God, against whom he had sinned, and who only could pardon him; with a view to which he was determined to make a free and open confession of it before him:

I will be sorry for my sin, or "careful" p about it; that is, how he committed it for the future: true repentance for sin produces a carefulness to abstain from all appearance of it; see 2 Corinthians 7:10.

p אדאג "solicitus ero", Montanus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis, Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I will declare mine iniquity - That is, he was not disposed to hide his sin. He would make no concealment of the fact that he regarded himself as a sinner. He admitted this to be true, and he admitted that his sin was the cause of all his troubles. It was the fact that he was a sinner that so painfully affected his mind; and he was not disposed to attempt to conceal it from anyone.

I will be sorry for my sin - I will not deny it; I will not apologize for it. I admit the truth of what my conscience charges on me; I admit the correctness and the propriety of the divine judgment by which I have been affiicted on account of my sin; I desire to repent of all my transgressions, and to turn from them. Compare Leviticus 26:41. The calamity brought upon the psalmist for his sin had produced the desired effect in this respect, that it had brought him to true repentance; and now, with the full confession of his sin, he was anxious only lest he should fall utterly, and should give his enemies, and the enemies of the truth, the occasion to triumph over him which they desired.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:18. I will declare mine iniquity — I will confess it with the deepest humiliation and self-abasement.