²¹ Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

¹⁴ If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,

² `And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches -- to abhorrence age-during.

⁴² We -- we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou -- Thou hast not forgiven.

⁴³ Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied.

⁴⁴ Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.

²⁰ Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

²¹ Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.

²² For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?

² Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.

¹⁸ Who `is' a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He -- He delighteth `in' kindness.

¹⁹ He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins.

²⁹ on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

⁹ if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

⁵ and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;

⁹ Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people `are' we all.

¹⁹ `Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs `is' thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

¹³ For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,

⁸ The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes `are' upon me -- and I am not.

⁹ Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.

²³ How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

²⁴ Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

¹⁴ To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm.

³² And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.

³³ Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.

³⁶ And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

¹⁵ Mortal man! as grass `are' his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

⁷ And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

¹⁰ And the heart of David smiteth him, after that he hath numbered the people, and David saith unto Jehovah, `I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, and now, O Jehovah, cause to pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.'