KJV King James Version
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 69:5
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.
WEB World English Bible
God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.
ASV American Standard Version
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from thee.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
O God, Thou—Thou hast known Concerning my overturn, And my desolations from Thee have not been hid.
Surrounding context — Psalm 69
2 I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.
5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
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Cross-references
Psalm 38:9Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.Jeremiah 16:17For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.Psalm 17:3Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me, [and] shalt find nothing; I am purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress.Psalm 19:12Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].Psalm 38:5My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.Psalm 44:20-21If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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