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Then Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this.”

Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!

But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

“Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”

Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

…and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.

After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”

Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

…and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and subjected to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.

After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),

Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

…that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—

If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

…and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

…then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

…this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

…if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.

And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.

For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?

Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

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

For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.

When iniquities prevail against me, You atone for our transgressions.

Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.