Psalms Chapter 65 verse 3 Holy Bible
Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.
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Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.
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Iniquities have prevailed against me: our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.
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Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
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O thou that hearest prayer, to thee shall all flesh come.
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Sins overwhelmed me, But you atoned for our transgressions.
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Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Iniquities prevail against me. Not so much, perhaps, his own iniquities, as these of his nation. Compare the expression, "our transgressions," in the next clause. As for our trangressions, thou shalt purge them away; or, cover them.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Iniquities.--Literally, Words (or, things) of iniquities, i.e., details of crime, or instances of wickedness. (Comp. Psalm 35:20; Psalm 105:27; Psalm 145:5.)Prevail.--Better, have prevailed, have overcome me, been too much for me. No doubt, though the pronoun is singular, we are to think of Israel at large here, confessing, by the mouth of the poet, its unworthiness of that Divine communion for which still (see next verse) God had chosen them. This is more in keeping with the general tone of the psalm than to refer the confession to an individual. The LXX. and Vulg. give the pronoun in the plural.There appears in this verse an antithesis between iniquity and transgression. The latter certainly sometimes seems to be applied in distinction to the violation of the covenant, and possibly the distinction is present here. The frailty and sin common to all flesh has not exempted Israel; but the chosen people have to mourn besides transgressions of their own law. These, however, will be by sacrifice purged away, and then, brought back into full covenant privilege, the offenders will approach the earthly dwelling-place of the Divine, and dwell there.
