Holy Scripture
Psalms 58:5
A church father on this verse
“We hide away our sin, cloaking it over in the depth of our soul, like some festering and malignant disease, as if by escaping human notice we could escape the mighty eye of God and justice. Or else we make excuses for our sins by devising pleas in defense of our falls or by tightly closing our ears. Like the snake tha…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Without iniquity I ran and directed my course aright: Awake to help me, and behold.
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3Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, And save me from bloody men.
4For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; Violent men have set upon me: Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.
— Psalms 58:5 —
6And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, Draw nigh to visit all the heathen; Pity not any that work iniquity. Pause.
7They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.