Psalms 109:15
May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
BSB
ASV
Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
KJV
Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Let them be before the Lord continually,.... And not cast behind his back, or into the depths of the sea, never to be seen more, as sins are when forgiven; but be always in sight, as loathsome and abominable, and causing those that committed them to be abhorred for them; and be before him, as a Judge, to examine them, the nature and kind of them, and to condemn and punish for them; see Exo 20:5. The Targum is, "let them be before the Word of the Lord always;'' see Heb 4:
Again, he wishes that his father's sins may follow up the transgressor and assist to fill the measure of his own iniquities, so that for the whole accumulated load the family may be smitten with utter extinction. A king might justly wish for such an end to fall upon an incorrigible brood of rebels; and of persecutors, continuing in the same mind, the saints might well pray for their extinction; but the passage is dark; and we must leave it so. It must be right or it would not be here, but how we cannot see.
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Psalms 51:9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
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For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
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Psalms 34:16But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
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The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
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O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of…
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.
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Isaiah 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
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Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.
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Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
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But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
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Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
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For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
