Psalms 51:3
Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
In Context
2when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had sinned with Bethsabee.
4Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:40Until they confess their iniquities and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed me, and walked contrary unto me.
Job 33:27He shall look upon men, and shall say : I have sinned, and indeed I have offended, and I have not received what I have deserved.
Psalms 38:18For I am ready for scourges : and my sorrow is continually before me.
Psalms 41:5I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me : heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
Isaiah 43:25I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
Jeremiah 3:25We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of theLord our God.
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 →