The sin of Judah {is} written with a pen of iron, {and} with the point of a diamond: {it is} graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; {point: Heb. nail}

The iniquity of Ephraim {is} bound up; his sin {is} hid.

My transgression {is} sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

For mine eyes {are} upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret {sins} in the light of thy countenance.

The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

{Is} not this laid up in store with me, {and} sealed up among my treasures?

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? {then} may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. {accustomed: Heb. taught}

All the ways of a man {are} clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh {them} shall have mercy.

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he {is} like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

{Is} not this laid up in store with me, {and} sealed up among my treasures?

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

And Samuel said, What {meaneth} then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? {it had been} good for me {to have been} there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be {any} iniquity in me, let him kill me.

And all the elders of that city, {that are} next unto the slain {man}, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

{There is} a generation {that are} pure in their own eyes, and {yet} is not washed from their filthiness.