Psalm 130:3

 Psalm 130:3

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

a. ASV: If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

 [Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.]

b. YLT: If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?  [The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.]

c. Classic Amplified: If You, Lord, should keep account of and treat [us according to our] sins, O Lord, who could stand? [Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation]

d. NLT: LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? [Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.]

e. Tehillim/Psalms: If You, O Yah, preserve iniquities, O my Lord, who could endure? [THE ARTSCROLL TANACH SERIES TEHILLIM / PSALMS PERSONAL SIZE EDITION VOL.1 Ⓒ Copyright 1977, 1985, 1996 by MESORAH PUBLICATIONS, Ltd.]

f. Torah, Judaism and Jewish information on the web: www.chabad.org; Online English Translation of the Tanakh (Jewish Bible): O God, if You keep [a record of] iniquities, O Lord, who will stand?  [English Translation, Ⓒ Copyright The Judaica Press All rights reserved.]

1. “If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”

a. If [Strong: 518 'im eem a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrog., whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not:--(and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), + but, either, + except, + more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, + save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, + surely (no more, none, not), though, + of a truth, + unless, + verily, when, whereas, whether, while, + yet.]

b. [thou] Lord [Strong: 3050 Yahh yaw contraction for 3068, and meaning the same; Jah, the sacred name:--Jah, the Lord, most vehement.]

c. [shouldest] mark [Strong: 8104 shamar shaw-mar' a primitive root; properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.:--beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).]

d. iniquities [Strong: 5771 `avon aw-vone' or oavown (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (7)) {aw-vone'}; from 5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil:--fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.]

e. [O] Lord [Strong: 136 'Adonay ad-o-noy' am emphatic form of 113; the Lord (used as a proper name of God only):--(my) Lord.]

f. who [Strong: 4310 miy me an interrogative pronoun of persons, as 4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix:--any (man), X he, X him, + O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), + would to God.]

g. [shall] stand [Strong: 5975 `amad aw-mad' a primitive root; to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive):--abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, + serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-)stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.]

1). Our verse is a verse we are all thankful for. Psalm 130:3 [NIV] “If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?” Praise God he doesn't keep a record of sins. And the psalmist was writing this under the Old Covenant when the best there was, was there sins were forgiven and covered by the blood of bulls on the Day of Atonement. Then the prophets could write:  “He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:19). And “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12). As good as that was, and it was good, the blood of bulls could only cover sin. But for us in the New Covenant because of the shed blood of Jesus it is so much more a better Covenant. There is not a yearly Day of Atonement, for it was all accomplished in the one sacrifice of Christ Jesus. As the book of Hebrews declares: “For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. 10:15  The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 10:16 “This is the covenant I will make with them  after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” 10:17 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” 10:18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.” Our sins are not only forgiven but forgotten, their gone. Praise God!