Psalms 18:23

18:23 I was innocent before him,

and kept myself from sinning. ¹ 

Psalms 38:18

38:18 Yes, ²  I confess my wrongdoing,

and I am concerned about my sins.

Psalms 89:32

89:32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, ³ 

their sin by inflicting them with bruises. ⁴ 

Psalms 90:8

90:8 You are aware of our sins; ⁵ 

you even know about our hidden sins. ⁶ 

Psalms 103:3

103:3 He is the one who forgives all your sins,

who heals all your diseases, ⁷ 

Psalms 107:17

107:17 They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, ⁸ 

and suffered because of their sins.

Psalms 130:8

130:8 He will deliver ⁹  Israel

from all the consequences of their sins. ¹⁰ 

[18:23]  ¹ tn Heb “from my sin,” that is, from making it my own in any way.

[38:18]  ² tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.

[89:32]  ³ tn Heb “I will punish with a club their rebellion.”

[89:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “with blows their sin.”

[90:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “you set our sins in front of you.”

[90:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “what we have hidden to the light of your face.” God’s face is compared to a light or lamp that exposes the darkness around it.

[103:3]  ⁵ tn This relatively rare noun refers to deadly diseases (see Deut 29:22; Jer 14:18; 16:4; 2 Chr 21:19).

[107:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “fools [they were] because of the way of their rebellion.”

[130:8]  ⁷ tn Or “redeem.”

[130:8]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew noun עָוֹן (’avon) can refer to sin, the guilt sin produces, or the consequences of sin. Only here is the noun collocated with the verb פָּדָה (padah, “to redeem; to deliver”). The psalmist may refer to forgiveness per se (v. 4), but the emphasis in this context is likely on deliverance from the national consequences of sin. See L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 192.