If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? "Mark" - i:e., take strict account of iniquities (Job 10:14; Job 14:16; Psalms 90:8). "Stand" is a legal term for, be justified (cf. Psalms 143:2). To fall - i:e., to be condemned-is the opposite term (cf. note, Psalms 1:5; Psalms 18:38; Psalms 20:8). If thou, Jah (the concentrated essence of all that Yahweh implies), shouldest mark mine iniquities which are the cause of my sufferings, then I should have no hope of deliverance "O Lord (Adonai), who should stand?" But thou will not mark them.