For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

You had thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment has abhorred me.

For My eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from My eyes.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Lo! Are not these things stored up by Me, and sealed among My treasures?

And You have sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.

You have set our transgressions before You; our age is in the light of Your countenance.

If You, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Ephraim [has framed] a conspiracy of unrighteousness; his sin is hidden.

The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.