Psalm 65:3 {64:4}
Good News Translation
on account of their sins. Our faults defeat us, but you forgive them.

New Revised Standard Version
When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us, you forgive our transgressions.

Contemporary English Version
When our sins get us down, you forgive us.

New American Bible
with its burden of wicked deeds. We are overcome by our sins; only you can pardon them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

Iniquities [heb.

Psalm 38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

Psalm 40:12 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

2 Samuel 12:7-13 And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee from the hand of Saul, . . .

Micah 7:8,9 Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light. . . .

Romans 7:23-25 But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members. . . .

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

transgressions

Psalm 51:2,3,7 Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. . . .

Psalm 79:9 Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:

Isaiah 1:18,19 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool. . . .

Isaiah 6:7 And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.

Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and of the unclean woman.

John 1:29 The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

1 John 1:7-9 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. . . .

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood

Context
Praise Awaits You, O God, in Zion
2O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee. 3The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.4Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:43
Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.

Psalm 38:4
For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

Psalm 40:12
For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Psalm 79:9
Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:

Ezekiel 16:63
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

Psalm 65:2
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