Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Parallel translations
- WEB Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
- BSB Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
- NKJV Deliver me from all my transgressions; Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
- NASB “Save me from all my wrongdoings; Do not make me an object of reproach for the foolish.
- NLT Rescue me from my rebellion. Do not let fools mock me.
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Quick answer
David prays for deliverance from all his transgressions and from becoming a mockery to fools. He links his trouble to his sin and seeks pardon.
Overview
Recognizing sin as the deeper problem, David asks for forgiveness, not merely relief. He also desires that the foolish not scorn him in his fall. Deliverance from transgression is fully accomplished in Christ, who saves His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).
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Cross-references · 18
- Ps 51:14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
- Ps 44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
- Mic 7:19He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- Joel 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
- Ps 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
- Ps 57:3He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
- Ps 25:11For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
- Ps 130:8And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
- Ps 25:18Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
- Joel 2:19Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
- Ps 51:7–10Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- Ps 65:3Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
- 2 Sam 16:7–8And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
- Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- Ps 35:21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
- Matt 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
- Rom 2:23–24Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
- Ps 119:39Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
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