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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Turn your face from my sins and erase all my crimes.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Contemporary English Version
Turn your eyes from my sin and cover my guilt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Hide Thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

Literal Standard Version
Hide Your face from my sin. And blot out all my iniquities.

Majority Standard Bible
Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

New American Bible
Turn away your face from my sins; blot out all my iniquities.

NET Bible
Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt!

New Revised Standard Version
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
Hide Thy face from my sin. And all mine iniquities blot out.

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
Psalm 39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

Psalm 51:1
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

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.

Jeremiah 16:17
For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.


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














(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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