If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity.

How many [are] my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.

Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?

Do not be furious, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Indeed, please look -- we all [are] Your people!

We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through.

Why do You forget us forever, [And] forsake us for so long a time?

Unless You have utterly rejected us, [And] are very angry with us!

And David's heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O LORD, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."

Who [is] a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights [in] mercy.

He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.

Take words with you, And return to the LORD. Say to Him, "Take away all iniquity; Receive [us] graciously, For we will offer the sacrifices of our lips.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself [His] own special people, zealous for good works.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest

If I say to corruption, 'You [are] my father,' And to the worm, 'You [are] my mother and my sister,'

Yet he shall be brought to the grave, And a vigil kept over the tomb.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; Everyone shall follow him, As countless [have gone] before him.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Your dead shall live; [Together with] my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; For your dew [is like] the dew of herbs, And the earth shall cast out the dead.

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.

Yet he passed away, and behold, he [was] no [more;] Indeed I sought him, but he could not be found.

[As for] man, his days [are] like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.