<p class="poetry">Many times he delivered<n id="1" /> them,p> <p class="poetry">but they had a rebellious attitude,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and degraded themselves<n id="3" /> by their sin.p>

<p class="poetry">If you, O <sc>Lordsc>, were to keep track of<n id="1" /> sins,p> <p class="poetry">O Lord, who could stand before you?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The wicked<n id="1" /> will be captured by his<n id="2" /> own iniquities,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and he will be held<n id="4" /> by the cords of his own sin.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Through loyal love and truth<n id="1" /> iniquity is appeased;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">through fearing the <sc>Lordsc><n id="3" /> one avoids<n id="4" /> evil.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who pull sin as with cart ropes.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry"><sc>Lordsc>, we confess that we have been wicked.p> <p class="poetry">We confess that our ancestors have done wrong.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">We have indeed<n id="2" /> sinned against you.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1502; (<i>Memi>)p> <p class="poetry">But it happened<n id="1" /> due to the sins of her prophets<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the iniquities of her priests,p> <p class="poetry">who poured out in her midstp> <p class="poetry">the blood of the righteous.p>

<p class="poetry">Our forefathers<n id="1" /> sinned and are dead,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but we<n id="3" /> suffer<n id="4" /> their punishment.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">They feed on the sin offerings of my people;p> <p class="poetry">their appetites long for their iniquity!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">They have sunk deep into corruption<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as in the days of Gibeah.p> <p class="poetry">He will remember their wrongdoing.p> <p class="poetry">He will repay them for their sins.p>

In the fourth generation<n id="1" /> your descendants<n id="2" /> will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Therefore<n id="1" /> the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it,<n id="2" /> so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity<n id="1" /> because he has profaned<n id="2" /> what is holy to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" /> That person will be cut off from his people.<n id="4" />p>

and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt<n id="1" /> when they eat their holy offerings,<n id="2" /> for I am the <sc>Lordsc> who sanctifies them.&#8217;&#8221;p>

But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

So Saul was keeping an eye on David from that day onward.p>

But Saul swore an oath to her by the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;As surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives, you will not incur guilt in this matter!&#8221;

Perhaps the <sc>Lordsc> will notice my affliction<n id="1" /> and this day grant me good in place of his curse.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Those truly of Israelite descent<n id="1" /> separated from all the foreigners,<n id="2" /> standing and confessing their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.<n id="3" />