“Behold,(A) I am vile;
What shall I answer You?
(B)I lay my hand over my mouth.

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The princes refrained from talking,
And (A)put their hand on their mouth;

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Look at me and be astonished;
(A)Put your hand over your mouth.

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Therefore I (A)abhor[a] myself,
And repent in dust and ashes.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 42:6 despise

So I said:

“Woe is me, for I am [a]undone!
Because I am a man of (A)unclean lips,
And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King,
The Lord of hosts.”

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  1. Isaiah 6:5 destroyed, cut off

32 If you have been foolish in exalting yourself,
Or if you have devised evil, (A)put your hand on your mouth.

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And I said: “O my God, I am too (A)ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for (B)our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has (C)grown up to the heavens.

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19 And they said to him, “Be quiet, (A)put your hand over your mouth, and come with us; (B)be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest to the household of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

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10 I am not worthy of the least of all the (A)mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with (B)my staff, and now I have become two companies.

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27 Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am (A)but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:

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15 (A)This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that (B)Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

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13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’

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18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, (A)I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’

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When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, (A)“Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”

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13 (A)Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused (B)from His holy habitation!”

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20 “But(A) the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”

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16 The nations (A)shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
(B)They shall put their hand over their mouth;
Their ears shall be deaf.

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O Lord, (A)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

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(A)we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.

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But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all (A)our righteousnesses are like [a]filthy rags;
We all (B)fade as a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind,
Have taken us away.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:6 Lit. a filthy garment

All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord [a]has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

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  1. Isaiah 53:6 Lit. has caused to land on Him

(A)Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil (B)in Your sight—
(C)That You may be found just [a]when You speak,
And blameless when You judge.

(D)Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

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  1. Psalm 51:4 LXX, Tg., Vg. in Your words

(A)I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was (B)You who did it.

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37 I would declare to Him the number of my steps;
Like a prince I would approach Him.

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I would present my case before Him,
And fill my mouth with arguments.
I would know the words which He would answer me,
And understand what He would say to me.
(A)Would He contend with me in His great power?
No! But He would take note of me.
There the upright could reason with Him,
And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

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