(A)Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.

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Do not cover up their guilt(A) or blot out their sins from your sight,(B) for they have thrown insults in the face of[a] the builders.

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  1. Nehemiah 4:5 Or have aroused your anger before

23 Yet (A)you, O Lord, know
    all their plotting to kill me.
(B)Forgive not their iniquity,
    nor blot out their sin from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
    deal with them in the time of your anger.

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23 But you, Lord, know
    all their plots to kill(A) me.
Do not forgive(B) their crimes
    or blot out their sins from your sight.
Let them be overthrown before you;
    deal with them in the time of your anger.(C)

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14 May (A)the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
    and let not the sin of his mother be (B)blotted out!

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14 May the iniquity of his fathers(A) be remembered before the Lord;
    may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

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27 (A)Add to them punishment upon punishment;
    may they have no acquittal from you.[a]
28 Let them be (B)blotted out of the book of the living;
    let them not be (C)enrolled among the righteous.

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  1. Psalm 69:27 Hebrew may they not come into your righteousness

27 Charge them with crime upon crime;(A)
    do not let them share in your salvation.(B)
28 May they be blotted out of the book of life(C)
    and not be listed with the righteous.(D)

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14 (A)Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; (B)the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

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14 Alexander(A) the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done.(B)

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22 (A)I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
    and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.

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22 I have swept away(A) your offenses like a cloud,
    your sins like the morning mist.
Return(B) to me,
    for I have redeemed(C) you.”

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    You, (A)Lord God of hosts, are God of Israel.
Rouse yourself to punish all the nations;
    spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah

Each evening they (B)come back,
    howling like dogs
    and prowling about the city.
There they are, (C)bellowing with their mouths
    with (D)swords in their lips—
    for (E)“Who,” they think,[a] “will hear us?”

But you, O Lord, (F)laugh at them;
    you hold all the nations in derision.
O my Strength, I will watch for you,
    for you, O God, are (G)my fortress.
10 (H)My God in his steadfast love[b] (I)will meet me;
    God will let me (J)look in triumph on my enemies.

11 Kill them not, lest my people forget;
    make them totter[c] by your power and (K)bring them down,
    O Lord, our (L)shield!
12 For (M)the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,
    let them be trapped in their pride.
For the cursing and lies that they utter,
13     (N)consume them in wrath;
    consume them till they are no more,
that they may (O)know that God rules over Jacob
    to (P)the ends of the earth. Selah

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  1. Psalm 59:7 Hebrew lacks they think
  2. Psalm 59:10 Or The God who shows me steadfast love
  3. Psalm 59:11 Or wander

You, Lord God Almighty,
    you who are the God of Israel,(A)
rouse yourself(B) to punish all the nations;(C)
    show no mercy to wicked traitors.[a](D)

They return at evening,
    snarling like dogs,(E)
    and prowl about the city.
See what they spew from their mouths(F)
    the words from their lips are sharp as swords,(G)
    and they think, “Who can hear us?”(H)
But you laugh at them, Lord;(I)
    you scoff at all those nations.(J)

You are my strength,(K) I watch for you;
    you, God, are my fortress,(L)
10     my God on whom I can rely.

God will go before me
    and will let me gloat over those who slander me.
11 But do not kill them, Lord our shield,[b](M)
    or my people will forget.(N)
In your might uproot them
    and bring them down.(O)
12 For the sins of their mouths,(P)
    for the words of their lips,(Q)
    let them be caught in their pride.(R)
For the curses and lies they utter,
13     consume them in your wrath,
    consume them till they are no more.(S)
Then it will be known to the ends of the earth
    that God rules over Jacob.(T)

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  1. Psalm 59:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 13.
  2. Psalm 59:11 Or sovereign

25 “I, I am he
    (A)who blots out (B)your transgressions for my own sake,
    and I will not remember your sins.

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25 “I, even I, am he who blots out
    your transgressions,(A) for my own sake,(B)
    and remembers your sins(C) no more.(D)

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Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when (A)Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

51 (B)Have mercy on me,[a] O God,
    according to your steadfast love;
according to your (C)abundant mercy
    (D)blot out my transgressions.

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  1. Psalm 51:1 Or Be gracious to me

Psalm 51[a]

For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.(A)

Have mercy(B) on me, O God,
    according to your unfailing love;(C)
according to your great compassion(D)
    blot out(E) my transgressions.(F)

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  1. Psalm 51:1 In Hebrew texts 51:1-19 is numbered 51:3-21.

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants (A)in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 12 But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

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11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah(A) said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,(B) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

12 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?(C)

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(A)Hide your face from my sins,
    and (B)blot out all my iniquities.

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Hide your face from my sins(A)
    and blot out(B) all my iniquity.

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