Psalms 130:3

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.

Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”