Psalm 51.5

Locke [7]
  For lo, in sinne, Lord, I begotten was,
With sede and shape my sinne I toke also,
Sinne is my nature and my kinde alas,
In sinne my mother me conceived: Lo
I am but sinne, and sinfull ought to dye,
Dye in his wrath that hath forbydden sinne.
Such bloome and frute loe sinne doth multiplie,
Such was my roote, such is my juyse within.
I plead not this as to excuse my blame,
On kynde or parentes myne owne gilt to lay:
But by disclosing of my sinne, my shame,
And nede of helpe, the plainer to displaye
Thy mightie mercy, if with plenteous grace
My plenteous sinnes it please thee to deface.

Locke's translation (in margin):
5. For loe, I was shapen in wickednes, and in sinne my mother conceived me.

Geneva Bible:
5. Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceived me.

Great Bible:
5. Beholde, I was shapen in wickednes, and in syn hath my mother conceyved me.

Latin Vulgate:
5. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum: et in peccatis concepit me mater mea.

Douay-Rheims:
7. For behold I was conceived in iniquities and my mother conceived me in sinnes.

Coverdale: The Psalter
Behold, I was borne in wycked-
nesse, and in synne hath my mother con-
ceaved me.

Wyatt: Certayn psalmes
Ffor I my sellff, lo thing most unstable,
Fformd in offence, conceyvid in like case,
Ame nowght but synn from my natyvite.
Be not this sayd for my excuse, alase,
But off thy help to shew necessite:

Coverdale: Goostly Psalmes
Se how I am conceaved in synne
My mother hath brought me forth therin
*A chylde of wrathe by nature borne
And without the lorde am forlorne

 

Surrey: Certain Chapters...
All thynge is knowen to the,
and nothyng from the hydde.
Even how of synne I hadde no lacke
when I was conceyved,
For why: to it also,
my mother was in thrall:
And when that I conceyved was
by hyr I hadde my fall.

Taverner: An Epitome
...for in wyckednes borne I was, and in synnes
my mother conceaved me, so that of
my nature what so ever I am, I am
but synne.

Joye: The Psalter of David
Lo, I was fassyoned in wyckednesse,
and my mother conceyved me polluted with synne

Crowley: The Psalter of David
Behold Lord in iniquitie, was I made & formed.
And was not fre from wyckednes, when I was conceived.

Whittingham/Geneva
It is to manifest alas,
that first I was conceyvd in synne:
yea of my mother so borne was,
and yet vile wretche remaine therin.

Parker: The Whole Psalter...
Behold in sinne: I shapen was,
in natyve filth infect:
My mother me: conceyvd alas,
in sinne of Adams sect.

Hunnis: Certayn Psalmes
Beholde I was begotte in synne
and so my mother bare me
Wherfore I clayme thy savynge helthe
Mercy good lorde and spare me.

Glemhan: Most Godly Prayers...
Thou seest that we were brought forth into this worlde corrupted and defiled even from our mothers wombe, and were before conceyved in the same iniquities also:

Sidney: The Psalms of David
My mother, loe! when I began to be,
Conceaving me, with me did sinne conceave:
And as with living heate she cherisht me,
Corruption did like cherishing receave....

Verstegan: Odes...
With favour view my foul deffects
In crymes I did begin,
My nature bad, my mother fraile
Conceav'd I was in sin.

Sandys: A Paraphrse...
In sin conceiv'd, brought forth, in sin,   
   Sin suck'd I from my mother's breast.