For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.

For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? Or [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?

Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are [then] far from him.

You have neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened your ears; for I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and would be called a transgressor even from the womb.

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

I was cast on You from the womb; You are My God from My mother's belly.

Hear Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne [by Me] from the womb, and taught [by Me] from infancy, [even] to old age;