"Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth."
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And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?
Behold, I am nought: what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
\40:9\Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like his?
"Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.