Psalms 130:3
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
BSB
ASV
If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
KJV
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities,.... Or "observe" (f) them. Not but that God does observe the sins of men: he sees all the evil actions of bad men done in the dark, which cannot hide them from him; and all the iniquities of good men, so as to correct and chastise for them, but not with his eye of vindictive justice.
His calling God Lord twice, in so few words, Jah and Adonai, is very emphatic, and intimates a very awful sense of God's glorious majesty and a dread of his wrath. To acknowledge our iniquities, that we cannot justify ourselves before God, or plead Not guilty. There is that which is remarkable in our iniquities and is liable to be animadverted upon.
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand. If Jah, the all seeing, should in strict justice call every man to account for every want of conformity to righteousness, where would any one of us be? Truly, he does record all our transgressions; but as yet he does not act upon the record, but lays it aside till another day. If men were to be judged upon no system but that of works, who among us could answer for himself at the Lord's bar, and hope to stand clear and accepted?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
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Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.
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Revelation 6:17For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
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But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
The LORD raises His voice in the presence of His army. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and…
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Psalms 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
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Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
