Psalms 38:18

Easy-to-Read Version

Lord, I told you about the evil I have done. I am sorry for my sin.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I confess my iniquity;I am anxious because of my sin.

Hebrew Names Version
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

King James Version
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

English Standard Version
I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.

New Century Version
I confess my guilt; I am troubled by my sin.

New English Translation
Yes, I confess my wrongdoing, and I am concerned about my sins.

Amplified Bible
For I do confess my guilt and iniquity; I am filled with anxiety because of my sin.

New American Standard Bible
For I admit my guilt; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

World English Bible
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

Geneva Bible (1587)
When I declare my paine, and am sory for my sinne,

Legacy Standard Bible
For I confess my iniquity;I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

Berean Standard Bible
Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

Contemporary English Version
I told you my sins, and I am sorry for them.

Complete Jewish Bible
For I am about to fall, and my pain is always with me.

Darby Translation
For I will declare mine iniquity, I am grieved for my sin.

George Lamsa Translation
I will declare mine iniquity to thee; I will purify myself of my sins.

Good News Translation
I confess my sins; they fill me with anxiety.

Lexham English Bible
For my iniquity I confess; I am anxious because of my sin.

Literal Translation
For I will confess my perversity; I am anxious from my sin.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I cofesse my wickednesse, & my synne greueth me.

American Standard Version
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Bible in Basic English
I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

King James Version (1611)
For I will declare mine iniquitie; I will be sory for my sinne.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Because I confesse my wickednesse: and am sory for my sinne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For I will declare mine iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.

English Revised Version
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y schal telle my wickidnesse; and Y schal thenke for my synne.

Update Bible Version
For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

New King James Version
For I will declare my iniquity; I will be in anguish over my sin.

New Living Translation
But I confess my sins; I am deeply sorry for what I have done.

New Life Bible
For I tell my wrong-doings. I am full of sorrow because of my sin.

New Revised Standard
I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, mine iniquity, will I declare, I shall be anxious because of my sin;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(37-19) For I will declare my iniquity: and I will think of my sin.

Revised Standard Version
I confess my iniquity, I am sorry for my sin.

Young's Literal Translation
For mine iniquity I declare, I am sorry for my sin.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I confess my iniquity; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

Contextual Overview

¹² My enemies say bad things about me. They are spreading lies and rumors. They talk about me all the time. ¹³ But I am like a deaf man and cannot hear. I am like someone who cannot speak. ¹⁴ I am like those who cannot hear what people are saying about them. I cannot answer to prove my enemies wrong. ¹⁵ Lord , you must defend me. Lord my God, you must speak for me. ¹⁶ That's why I prayed, "Don't let my enemies smile at my pain. Full of pride, they will laugh if I stumble and fall." ¹⁷ I know I am guilty of doing wrong. I cannot forget my pain. ¹⁸ Lord, I told you about the evil I have done. I am sorry for my sin. ¹⁹ But my enemies are alive and healthy, and they have told many lies. ²⁰ I did nothing but good, and they paid me back with evil. I try to do what is right, but that only makes them turn against me. ²¹ Lord , don't leave me. My God, stay close to me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: Psalms 32:5, Psalms 51:3, Job 31:33, Job 33:27, Proverbs 28:13

sorry: 2 Corinthians 7:7-11

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:20 - Indeed Psalms 102:10 - Because Psalms 119:26 - declared Luke 7:38 - weeping Luke 22:62 - and wept

Cross-References

Genesis 38:25
The men went to Tamar to kill her, but she sent a message to her father-in-law that said, "The man who made me pregnant is the man who owns these things. Look at them. Whose are they? Whose special seal and string is this? Whose walking stick is this?"

Genesis 38:26
Judah recognized these things and said, "She is right. I was wrong. I did not give her my son Shelah like I promised." And Judah did not sleep with her again.

Jeremiah 22:24
"As surely as I live," says the Lord , "I will do this to you, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah: Even if you were a signet ring on my right hand, I would still pull you off.

Hosea 4:11
"Sexual sins, strong drink, and new wine ruin a person's ability to think straight.

Luke 15:22
"But the father said to his servants, ‘Hurry! Bring the best clothes and put them on him. Also, put a ring on his finger and good sandals on his feet.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will declare mine iniquity,.... Either to men, to ease his mind, justify God in his proceedings with him, and for their caution and admonition: or rather to God, against whom he had sinned, and who only could pardon him; with a view to which he was determined to make a free and open confession of it before him:

I will be sorry for my sin, or "careful" p about it; that is, how he committed it for the future: true repentance for sin produces a carefulness to abstain from all appearance of it; see 2 Corinthians 7:10.

p אדאג "solicitus ero", Montanus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis, Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I will declare mine iniquity - That is, he was not disposed to hide his sin. He would make no concealment of the fact that he regarded himself as a sinner. He admitted this to be true, and he admitted that his sin was the cause of all his troubles. It was the fact that he was a sinner that so painfully affected his mind; and he was not disposed to attempt to conceal it from anyone.

I will be sorry for my sin - I will not deny it; I will not apologize for it. I admit the truth of what my conscience charges on me; I admit the correctness and the propriety of the divine judgment by which I have been affiicted on account of my sin; I desire to repent of all my transgressions, and to turn from them. Compare Leviticus 26:41. The calamity brought upon the psalmist for his sin had produced the desired effect in this respect, that it had brought him to true repentance; and now, with the full confession of his sin, he was anxious only lest he should fall utterly, and should give his enemies, and the enemies of the truth, the occasion to triumph over him which they desired.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:18. I will declare mine iniquity — I will confess it with the deepest humiliation and self-abasement.