Mazmur 51:3

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(51-5) Sebab aku sendiri sadar akan pelanggaranku, aku senantiasa bergumul dengan dosaku.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(51-5) Sebab aku sendiri sadar akan pelanggaranku, aku senantiasa bergumul dengan dosaku.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Kasihankanlah kiranya aku, ya Allah, sekadar kemurahan-Mu, dan hapuskan apalah segala durhakaku sekadar kebesaran segala rahmat-Mu!

Contextual Overview

¹ Haue mercie on me O Lorde accordyng to thy louyng kindnesse: accordyng vnto the multitudes of thy mercies wype out my wickednesse. ² Washe me throughly from myne iniquitie: and clense me from my sinne. ³ For I do acknowledge my wickednesse: and my sinne is euer before me. ⁴ Agaynst thee, only agaynst thee I haue sinned and done this euyll in thy sight: that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying, and founde pure when thou art iudged. ⁵ Beholde, I was ingendred in iniquitie: and in sinne my mother conceaued me. ⁶ Neuerthelesse, lo thou requirest trueth in the inwarde partes [of me]: & [therfore] thou wylt make me learne wisdome in the secrete [part of myne heart.]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For I: Psalms 32:5, Psalms 38:18, Leviticus 26:40, Leviticus 26:41, Nehemiah 9:2, Job 33:27, Proverbs 28:13, Luke 15:18-21

my sin: Psalms 40:12, Isaiah 59:12, Jeremiah 3:25

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:45 - Unclean Leviticus 16:21 - confess over Joshua 7:19 - make Psalms 65:3 - transgressions Jeremiah 14:20 - We acknowledge Lamentations 1:20 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I acknowledge my transgressions,.... Before God and man. Acknowledgment of sin is what the Lord requires, and promises forgiveness upon, and therefore is used here as a plea for it; and moreover the psalmist had done so before, and had succeeded in this way, which must encourage him to take the same course again; see

Psalms 32:5;

and my sin [is] ever before me; staring him in the face; gnawing upon his conscience, and filling him with remorse and distress; so that his life was a burden to him: for though God had put away sin out of his own sight, so that he would not condemn him for it, and he should not die; notwithstanding as yet it was not caused to pass from David, or the guilt of it removed from his conscience.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I acknowledge my transgressions - literally, I know, or make known. That is, he knew that he was a sinner, and he did not seek to cloak or conceal that fact. He came with the knowledge of it himself; he was willing to make acknowledgment of it before God. There was no attempt to conceal it; to excuse it. Compare the notes at Psalms 32:5. The word ““for”” does not imply that he referred to his willingness to confess his sins as an act of merit, but it indicates a state of mind which was necessary to forgiveness, and without which he could not hope for pardon.

And my sin is ever before me - That is, It is now constantly before my mind. It had not been so until Nathan brought it vividly to his recollection (2 Samuel 12:1 ff); but after that it was continually in his view. He could not turn his mind from it. The memory of his guilt followed him; it pressed upon him; it haunted him. It was no wonder that this was so. The only ground of wonder in the case is that it did not occur “before” Nathan made that solemn appeal to him, or that he could have been for a moment insensible to the greatness of his crime. The whole transaction, however, shows that people “may” be guilty of enormous sins, and have for a long time no sense of their criminality; but that “when” the consciousness of guilt is made to come home to the soul, nothing will calm it down. Everything reminds the soul of it; and nothing will drive away its recollection. In such a state the sinner has no refuge - no hope of permanent peace - but in the mercy of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 51:3. For I acknowledge my transgressions — I know, I feel, I confess that I have sinned.

My sin is ever before me. — A true, deep, and unsophisticated mark of a genuine penitent. Wherever he turns his face, he sees his sin, and through it the eye of an angry God.