Psalms 51:4
\51:2\Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
3\51:1\Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
5\51:3\For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
Cross References
Genesis 9:6Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
Genesis 38:7Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.
Leviticus 5:19It is an offering for his error: he is certainly responsible before the Lord.
2 Samuel 12:9Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Kings 17:17And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.
Psalms 50:4His voice will go out to the heavens and to the earth, for the judging of his people:
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:2-7
Penitential Petitions. 1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my… Read the whole commentary →