Psalms 79:8

The psalmist pleads that God not hold past sins against them but show mercy quickly. They confess deep need and dependence on grace.

Cross-references · 18

• Isa 64:9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
• Ps 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
• Ps 116:6The LORD preserves the simplehearted; I was helpless, and He saved me.
• Ps 21:3For You welcomed him with rich blessings; You placed on his head a crown of pure gold.
• Rev 18:5For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
• Hos 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
• Matt 23:32–36Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
• Exod 32:34Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
• Ps 69:16–17Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
• Ezek 2:3“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
• Ps 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
• Dan 9:16O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
• 1 Kgs 17:18“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”
• Ps 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
• Gen 15:16In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
• Ps 106:43Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
• Hos 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
• Deut 28:43The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

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