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If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
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The Great Equalizer
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse is a universal confession. If God were to judge humanity based on a strict accounting of every sin, no person—not even the most devout—could be found righteous. This truth levels the playing field, humbling everyone before God's perfect standard.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities – If you should observe, note, attend to, or regard all the evil that I have done. The Hebrew wor…
19th Century
Anglican
If you. —The word rendered “mark” is “watch” in Psalms 130:6. If “Jah” were to watch for men’s lapses, as one watches for the dawn…
Baptist
If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
That is to say, apart from Christ, if God exercises his justice to i…
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16th Century
Protestant
If You, O God! should mark iniquities—here the Prophet acknowledges that although severely afflicted, he had justly deserved the punishmen…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you, Lord, should mark iniquities Or "observe" F6 them. Not but that God does observe the sins of men:…
The only way of relief for a sin-entangled soul is by applying to God alone. Many things present themselves as diversions, many things offer themse…
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