Psalm 51:9
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 Version
Hide 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 Bible
Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Turn your face away from my sins, and erase all my iniquities.

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 Bible
Turn 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 1917
Hide 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.
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;

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Psalm 51
1. David prays for remission of sins, whereof he makes a deep confession
6. 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
The term "blot out" comes from the Hebrew "מָחָה" (machah), which means to wipe away or obliterate. This is a vivid image of complete erasure, akin to wiping ink off a parchment. In the ancient world, writing was often done on materials that could be reused, and the act of blotting out was a way to remove previous writings entirely. David's request for God to blot out his iniquities signifies a desire for total forgiveness and cleansing, not just a covering of sin but its complete removal. The word "iniquities" refers to moral perversity or guilt, emphasizing the depth of David's awareness of his moral failings. This plea is a profound acknowledgment of human inability to rectify sin without divine grace, pointing to the necessity of God's redemptive work.

(9) Hide thy face . . .--i.e., thy angry look. (See Psalm 21:9.) More usually the expression is used in the opposite sense of hiding the gracious look. As long as Jehovah kept the offences before Him the breach in the covenant must continue.

Verse 9. - Hide thy face from my sins. Turn thyself away from them - do not so much as see them. The apostle speaks of times of ignorance, which God "winked at" (Acts 17:30). And blot out all mine iniquities (comp. ver. 1).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Hide
הַסְתֵּ֣ר (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


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