I declared my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, I will confess my transgression to Jehovah, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is continually before me.

if I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

Then he observes men and says, I have sinned, and perverted what was right; and it has not been equaled to me.

He who covers his sins shall not prosper; but he who confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was encouraged in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry unto repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.

For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vengeance! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.