Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Ver. 3. Iniquities prevail against me] And seek to choke my prayers; they prick me in the foot, as it were, that I cannot come to thee in prayer; or not with that confidence; but that is more than needs, since
As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away] So that if we turn from them they shall not hinder good things from us. No man was ever rejected by God for his confessed badness, as sundry have been for their supposed goodness: witness the publican and the Pharisee, Luk 18:9-14