Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Wash me, as a fuller washes a fouled garment ( πλῦνον, LXX; not υίψον), not as a man washes his skin. And cleanse me from my sin. "Transgressions," "iniquity," "sin," cover every form of moral evil, and, united together, imply the deepest guilt (comp.
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Psalms 51:2
Psalms 51:2
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