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Psalm 130:3–4

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130:3If you, O Lord, were to keep track of4 sins,

O Lord, who could stand before you?5

130:4But6 you are willing to forgive,7

so that you might8 be honored.9

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Psalm 130:3–4: If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.

Footnotes

  1. 4 Heb “observe.”
  2. 5 The words “before you” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The psalmist must be referring to standing before God’s judgment seat. The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No one.”
  3. 6 Or “surely.”
  4. 7 Heb “for with you [there is] forgiveness.”
  5. 8 Or “consequently you are.”
  6. 9 Heb “feared.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

But with you there is forgiveness,

that you may be feared.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If you, Lord, kept a record of sins,

Lord, who could stand?

But with you there is forgiveness,

so that we can, with reverence, serve you.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Lord, if you kept an account of iniquities,

Lord, who could stand?

But with you there is forgiveness,

so that you may be revered.

NLTNew Living Translation

Lord, if you kept a record of our sins,

who, O Lord, could ever survive?

But you offer forgiveness,

that we might learn to fear you.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If you, O Yah, should keep track of iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

But with you is forgiveness,

so that you may be feared.”

KJV 1900King James Version

If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities,

O Lord, who shall stand?

But there is forgiveness with thee,

That thou mayest be feared.