Catholic Public Domain Version
"You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness. "
— Psalms 51:5, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me. ”
“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.”
“Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.”
“Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.”
“Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.”
“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech.
Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?
All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.
You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.
You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.
Because of this, God will destroy you in the end. He will pull you up, and he will remove you from your tabernacle and your root from the land of the living.
The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say: