Psalm 51:1

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Summary

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

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2 Samuel 12:1

After

2 Samuel 11:2

O god

Multitude

Tender

Psalm 40:11

Psalm 77:9

Psalm 145:9

Bible References

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So the Lord sent Nathan to David. When he arrived, he said to him:

There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

After

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

O god

Remember, Lord, Your compassion
and Your faithful love,
for they have existed from antiquity.

But You, Yahweh my Lord,
deal kindly with me because of Your name;
deliver me because of the goodness of Your faithful love.

Deal with Your servant based on Your faithful love;
teach me Your statutes.

Then the Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:

Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth,

The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.

Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord our God, though we have rebelled against Him

Who is a God like You,
removing iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not hold on to His anger forever,
because He delights in faithful love.

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

Multitude

But I enter Your house
by the abundance of Your faithful love;
I bow down toward Your holy temple
in reverential awe of You.

But as for me, Lord,
my prayer to You is for a time of favor.
In Your abundant, faithful love, God,
answer me with Your sure salvation.

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp
the significance of Your wonderful works
or remember Your many acts of faithful love;
instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

I will make known the Lord’s faithful love
and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,
because of all the Lord has done for us—
even the many good things
He has done for the house of Israel
and has done for them based on His compassion
and the abundance of His faithful love.

Tender

Lord, do not withhold Your compassion from me;
Your constant love and truth will always guard me.

Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger withheld His compassion?”Selah

The Lord is good to everyone;
His compassion rests on all He has made.