When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You have become angry with them and delivered them to the enemy, and they have taken them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;

When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You have become angry with them and delivered them to the enemy, and they have taken them captive to a land far or near;

What is man, that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

how much more abhorrent and corrupt is man, who drinks injustice like water!

If You, YAH, should keep remembering iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Do not enter into judgment with Your servant, for in Your sight no one living is just.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a flawless man, able also to bridle the whole body.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.

But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.