Psalm 51:9 {50:11}
Good News Translation
Close your eyes to my sins and wipe out all my evil.

New Revised Standard Version
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Contemporary English Version
Turn your eyes from my sin and cover my guilt.

New American Bible
Turn away your face from my sins; blot out all my iniquities.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

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Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

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Isaiah 38:17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Jeremiah 16:17 For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.

Micah 7:18,19 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. . . .

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Psalm 51:1 Unto the end, a psalm of David, [2] When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [3] Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of the decree that was against us, which was contrary to us. And he hath taken the same out of the way, fastening it to the cross.

Context
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
8To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice. 9Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.10Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.…
Cross References
Psalm 39:8
Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a reproach to the fool.

Psalm 51:1
Unto the end, a psalm of David, [2] When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [3] Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.

Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.

Jeremiah 16:17
For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.

Psalm 51:8
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