Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. New Living Translation Don’t keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt. English Standard Version Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Berean Standard Bible Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. King James Bible Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. New King James Version Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities. New American Standard Bible Hide Your face from my sins And wipe out all my guilty deeds. NASB 1995 Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities. NASB 1977 Hide Thy face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities. Legacy Standard Bible Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities. Amplified Bible Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities. Christian Standard Bible Turn your face away from my sins and blot out all my guilt. Holman Christian Standard Bible Turn Your face away from my sins and blot out all my guilt. American Standard Version Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities. Contemporary English Version Turn your eyes from my sin and cover my guilt. English Revised Version Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. GOD'S WORD® Translation Hide your face from my sins, and wipe out all that I have done wrong. Good News Translation Close your eyes to my sins and wipe out all my evil. International Standard Version Hide your countenance from my sins and erase the record of my iniquities. Majority Standard Bible Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. NET Bible Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt! New Heart English Bible Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. Webster's Bible Translation Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. World English Bible Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionHide Your face from my sin. And blot out all my iniquities. Young's Literal Translation Hide Thy face from my sin. And all mine iniquities blot out. Smith's Literal Translation Hide thy face from my sin, and wipe away all mine iniquities. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleTurn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible Turn away your face from my sins; blot out all my iniquities. New Revised Standard Version Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleTurn thy face away from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Turn your face from my sins and erase all my crimes. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Hide Thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities. Brenton Septuagint Translation Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God…8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed 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 spirit within me.… Cross References Isaiah 43:25 I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more. Hebrews 8:12 For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.” Jeremiah 31:34 No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.” Micah 7:18-19 Who 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? / He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 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. Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away, Colossians 2:13-14 When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses, / having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross! Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you. Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 2 Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. Romans 4:7-8 “Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered. / Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.” Isaiah 38:17 Surely 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. Hebrews 10:17 Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” Nehemiah 4:5 Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders. Treasury of Scripture Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Hide Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. Jeremiah 16:17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. Micah 7:18,19 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy… blot Psalm 51:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; Jump to Previous Blot Face Hide Iniquities Iniquity Sin Sins Turned WrongdoingJump to Next Blot Face Hide Iniquities Iniquity Sin Sins Turned WrongdoingPsalm 51 1. David prays for remission of sins, whereof he makes a deep confession6. He prays for sanctification 16. God delights not in sacrifice, but in sincerity 18. He prays for the church Hide Your face from my sins This phrase begins with a plea for divine mercy and forgiveness. The Hebrew word for "hide" is "סָתַר" (satar), which conveys the idea of concealing or covering. In the ancient Near Eastern context, the face of a deity was often associated with favor or disfavor. Here, David is asking God to turn away His face from his sins, implying a desire for God not to look upon his transgressions with judgment. This reflects a deep understanding of the holiness of God and the seriousness of sin. Theologically, it underscores the need for divine intervention to remove the guilt and shame associated with sin. and blot out all my iniquities Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Hideהַסְתֵּ֣ר (has·têr) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 5641: To hide, conceal Your face פָּ֭נֶיךָ (pā·ne·ḵā) Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 6440: The face from my sins מֵחֲטָאָ֑י (mê·ḥă·ṭā·’āy) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 2399: A crime, its penalty and blot out מְחֵֽה׃ (mə·ḥêh) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 4229: To stroke, rub, to erase, to smooth, grease, make fat, to touch, reach to all וְֽכָל־ (wə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every my iniquities. עֲוֺ֖נֹתַ֣י (‘ă·wō·nō·ṯay) Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity Links Psalm 51:9 NIVPsalm 51:9 NLT Psalm 51:9 ESV Psalm 51:9 NASB Psalm 51:9 KJV Psalm 51:9 BibleApps.com Psalm 51:9 Biblia Paralela Psalm 51:9 Chinese Bible Psalm 51:9 French Bible Psalm 51:9 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 51:9 Hide your face from my sins (Psalm Ps Psa.) |