- Using your Bible: Psalms 51:5
- Read the text
- Read the context
- Psalm 51
- Confession of sin before God.
- This is poetry, with many figures of speech throughout.
- Psalm 51
- Compare translations
- CSB, NIV, and NET attach sin to the speaker specifically. Other translations do not.
- Hebrew
- Iniquity - עָוֹן (ʿ__āw__ōn) 5771
- Sin - חֵטְא (ḥēṭe(__ʾ)) 2399
- Figures of speech
- “in sin my mother conceived me” could be hyperbole
- I Timothy 1:15 – Paul uses hyperbole to speak of his sin against God.
- Psalms 6:6-7 – Hyperbole in repentance
- Psalms 32:3; 38:2-4; 143:2 – More examples of hyperbole when expressing guilt.
- Psalms 22:10; 71:6 – These verses contradict that explanation that David was born in sin.
- Psalms 58:3 – Another hyperbole – all men go astray.
- Psalms 139:15-16
- “in sin my mother conceived me” could be hyperbole
- Harmony
- Ezekiel 18:2-4, 20 – A man is guilty only of his own sin.
- Deuteronomy 1:39
- Matthew 18:3; 19:13-15 – Why would Jesus say these things if children are sinful?
DW
March 14, 2018
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