Psalm 130:3
New International Version
If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

New Living Translation
LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?

English Standard Version
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Berean Standard Bible
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

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

New King James Version
If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

New American Standard Bible
If You, LORD, were to keep account of guilty deeds, Lord, who could stand?

NASB 1995
If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

NASB 1977
If Thou, LORD, shouldst mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Legacy Standard Bible
If You should keep iniquities, O Yah, O Lord, who could stand?

Amplified Bible
If You, LORD, should keep an account of our sins and treat us accordingly, O Lord, who could stand [before you in judgment and claim innocence]?

Christian Standard Bible
LORD, if you kept an account of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yahweh, if You considered sins, Lord, who could stand?

American Standard Version
If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Contemporary English Version
If you kept record of our sins, no one could last long.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
O LORD, who would be able to stand if you kept a record of sins?

Good News Translation
If you kept a record of our sins, who could escape being condemned?

International Standard Version
LORD, if you were to record iniquities, Lord, who could remain standing?

Majority Standard Bible
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

NET Bible
If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

New Heart English Bible
If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Webster's Bible Translation
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

World English Bible
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
If You observe iniquities, Lord YAH, who stands?

Young's Literal Translation
If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

Smith's Literal Translation
If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

Catholic Public Domain Version
If you, O Lord, were to heed iniquities, who, O Lord, could persevere?

New American Bible
If you, LORD, keep account of sins, Lord, who can stand?

New Revised Standard Version
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand?

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
If you keep sins, LORD JEHOVAH, who is able to stand?
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
If thou, O Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Out of the Depths I Cry to You
2O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy. 3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand? 4But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.…

Cross References
Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

1 John 1:8-10
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. / If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. / If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

James 2:10
Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

Isaiah 64:6
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

Romans 3:10-12
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. / There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. / All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

Job 9:2-3
“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God? / If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Galatians 3:22
But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

Isaiah 53:6
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

Matthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Luke 18:13
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’

Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

1 Kings 8:46
When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,


Treasury of Scripture

If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

shouldest mark

Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Job 9:2,3,20
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? …

Job 10:14
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

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Psalm 130
1. The psalmist professes his hope in prayer
5. And his patience in hope
7. He exhorts Israel to trust in God














If You, O LORD, kept a record of iniquities
The phrase begins with a conditional "If," suggesting a hypothetical scenario that invites deep reflection. The Hebrew word for "LORD" here is "Yahweh," the covenant name of God, emphasizing His eternal and unchanging nature. The term "kept a record" translates from the Hebrew "shamar," which means to guard or watch over. This implies a meticulous accounting, akin to a ledger of sins. "Iniquities" comes from the Hebrew "avon," referring to moral perversity or guilt. The verse suggests that if God were to meticulously track every sin, the weight of human transgression would be overwhelming. This highlights God's omniscience and the gravity of sin in the human condition.

O Lord, who could stand?
The repetition of "Lord" here, translated from "Adonai," underscores God's sovereign authority and power. The rhetorical question "who could stand?" uses the Hebrew "ya'amod," meaning to endure or remain firm. This implies that no one could withstand God's judgment if He were to hold every sin against us. The phrase evokes a courtroom setting where the accused stands before a judge, emphasizing the holiness of God and the helplessness of humanity without divine mercy. It calls believers to recognize their dependence on God's grace and forgiveness, as no one is righteous on their own merit.

(3) If thou.--The word rendered "mark" is "watch" in Psalm 130:6. If "Jah" were to watch for men's lapses, as one watches for the dawn, nothing but signal punishment could follow. So Job (Job 10:14; Job 14:16) actually believed God did watch; while the prophets Jeremiah (Jeremiah 3:5) and Amos (Amos 1:11) use the word of the strict care taken that the consequences should follow the sin. It is a fact worthy of attention, that misfortune provokes at this crisis, in this people so profoundly religious, not murmurings against the Divine dealings, but a sense of deep contrition.

Verse 3. - If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities. The Prayer-book paraphrase gives the true sense, "If thou, Lord, shouldest be extreme to mark what is done miss." If thou didst not "hide our transgressions" and "cover up" half our sins - then, O Lord, who shall stand? (comp. Psalm 76:7, "Who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?").

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If You,
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

O LORD,
יָ֑הּ (yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3050: LORD -- the name of the God of Israel

kept track
תִּשְׁמָר־ (tiš·mār-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

of iniquities,
עֲוֺנ֥וֹת (‘ă·wō·nō·wṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity

O Lord,
אֲ֝דֹנָ֗י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

who
מִ֣י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

could stand?
יַעֲמֹֽד׃ (ya·‘ă·mōḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations


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