Psalm 66:18 {65:18}
Good News Translation
If I had ignored my sins, the Lord would not have listened to me.

New Revised Standard Version
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Contemporary English Version
If my thoughts had been sinful, he would have refused to hear me.

New American Bible
Had I cherished evil in my heart, the Lord would not have heard.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

If I regard

Job 27:8,9 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul? . . .

Proverbs 15:8,29 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable. . . .

Proverbs 21:13 He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.

Proverbs 28:9 He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

John 9:31 Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.

James 4:3 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

Context
Make a Joyful Noise
17I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue. 18If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.19Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my supplication.…
Cross References
John 9:31
Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.

James 4:3
You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

Deuteronomy 1:45
And when you returned and wept before the Lord, he heard you not, neither would he yield to your voice.

Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

Job 36:21
Beware thou turn not aside to iniquity: for this thou hast begun to follow after misery.

Psalm 18:23
And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

Psalm 18:41
They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.

Proverbs 1:28
Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 28:9
He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.

Isaiah 1:15
And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Jeremiah 11:14
Therefore do not thou pray for this people, and do not take up praise and prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time of their cry to me, in the time of their affliction.

Psalm 66:17
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