Psalms Chapter 130 verse 3 Holy Bible
If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
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O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
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If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?
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If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
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If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
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If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?
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Psalms 130 : 3 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities. The Prayer-book paraphrase gives the true sense, "If thou, Lord, shouldest be extreme to mark what is done miss." If thou didst not "hide our transgressions" and "cover up" half our sins - then, O Lord, who shall stand? (comp. Psalm 76:7, "Who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?").
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) If thou.--The word rendered "mark" is "watch" in Psalm 130:6. If "Jah" were to watch for men's lapses, as one watches for the dawn, nothing but signal punishment could follow. So Job (Job 10:14; Job 14:16) actually believed God did watch; while the prophets Jeremiah (Jeremiah 3:5) and Amos (Amos 1:11) use the word of the strict care taken that the consequences should follow the sin. It is a fact worthy of attention, that misfortune provokes at this crisis, in this people so profoundly religious, not murmurings against the Divine dealings, but a sense of deep contrition.