¹⁵ The children of Israel said to Yahweh, We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, we pray you, this day.

¹⁸ Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good.

²⁶ but if he say thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seems good to him.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

¹⁰ If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

⁹ Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

⁴ I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

¹³ He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, But whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

³¹ "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

³² Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

²⁷ He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it didn't profit me.

¹⁴ David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.

¹⁰ David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.

¹³ David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

¹² Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.

²⁵ Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.