My transgression is sealed up in a bag,\par\tab And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.\par
Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.
{\i Ye say}, God layeth up his iniquity for his children.\par\tab Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:
But the mountain falling cometh to nought;\par\tab And the rock is removed out of its place;
I am clean, without transgression;\par\tab I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me:\par\tab Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch,\par\tab And mine own clothes shall abhor me.