Psalms 51:1
In your kindness, O God, be gracious to me, in your own great pity blot out my transgressions.
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2Wash me clean of my guilt, make me pure of my sin.
Cross References
Psalms 4:1Answer my cry, God, my defender. Often from straits you have brought me to spacious places. So now show me your favor and hear my prayer.
Psalms 25:6Remember your pity, O Lord, and your kindness, for they have been ever of old.
Psalms 51:9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out my guilt altogether.
Psalms 69:16Answer me, Lord, in your gracious kindness, turn to me in your great compassion.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:1
Though David penned this psalm upon a very particular occasion, yet, it is of as general use as any of David's psalms; it is the most eminent of the penitential psalms, and most expressive of the cares and desires of a repenting sinner. It is a pity indeed that in our devout addresses to God we should have any thing else to do than to praise God, for that is the work of heaven; but we make other work for ourselves by our own sins and follies: we must come to the throne of grace in the posture of penitents, to… Read the whole commentary →