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Psa. 51:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, wheni Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-shebak.>> Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blotn out my transgressions.

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2 Sam. 12:1• ¹And Jehovah sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. (2 Sam. 12:1)

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2 Sam. 11:2,4• ²And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;
⁴And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; and she had purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned to her house. (2 Sam. 11:2,4)

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Isa. 43:25• ²⁵I, I [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins. (Isa. 43:25)

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Isa. 44:22• ²²I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me, for I have redeemed thee. (Isa. 44:22)

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Acts 3:19• ¹⁹Repent therefore, and be converted for the blotting out of your sins, so that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, (Acts 3:19)

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1-5: David prays for remission of sins, whereof he makes a deep confession.

6-15: He prays for sanctification.

16-17: God delights not in sacrifice, but in sincerity.

18-19: He prays for the church.

A.M. 2970.

B.C. 1034.

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when.

2 Sam. 12:1‑13• ¹And Jehovah sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
²The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
³but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
⁴And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
⁵And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man. and he said to Nathan, As Jehovah liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
⁶and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
⁷And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith Jehovah God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
⁸and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
⁹Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of Jehovah, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
¹⁰Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
¹¹Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
¹²Thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
¹³And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said unto David, Jehovah also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. (2 Sam. 12:1‑13)

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2 Sam. 11:2‑27• ²And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;
³and David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urijah the Hittite?
⁴And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; and she had purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned to her house.
⁵And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
⁶And David sent to Joab saying, Send me Urijah the Hittite. And Joab sent Urijah to David.
⁷And when Urijah had come to him, David asked how Joab prospered, and how the people prospered, and how the war prospered.
⁸And David said to Urijah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet. And Urijah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him presents from the king.
⁹And Urijah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
¹⁰And they had told David saying, Urijah did not go down to his house; and David said to Urijah, Art thou not come from a journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?
¹¹And Urijah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields: shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
¹²And David said to Urijah, Abide here today also, and tomorrow I will let thee depart. And Urijah abode in Jerusalem that day and the morrow.
¹³And David invited him, and he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but did not go down to his house.
¹⁴And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by Urijah.
¹⁵And he wrote in the letter saying, Set Urijah in the front of the thickest fight, and withdraw from him, that he may be smitten and die.
¹⁶And it came to pass as Joab watched the city, that he assigned Urijah to a place where he knew that the valiant men were.
¹⁷And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab; and there fell some of the people, of the servants of David; and Urijah the Hittite died also.
¹⁸Then Joab sent and told David all the matters of the war;
¹⁹and charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast ended telling the matters of the war to the king,
²⁰and if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say to thee, Why did ye go so near to the city to fight? did ye not know that they would shoot from the wall?
²¹Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast the upper stone of a handmill from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why did ye go near the wall? —then say thou, Thy servant Urijah the Hittite is dead also.
²²And the messenger went; and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him for.
²³And the messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, and came out against us into the field, and we were upon them as far as the entrance of the gate.
²⁴And the shooters shot from upon the wall against thy servants; and some of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Urijah the Hittite is dead also.
²⁵Then David said to the messenger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devours one as well as another: make thy battle strong against the city, and overthrow it; —and encourage him.
²⁶And the wife of Urijah heard that Urijah her husband was dead, and she mourned for her husband.
²⁷And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of Jehovah. (2 Sam. 11:2‑27)

O God.

Psa. 25:6‑7• ⁶Remember thy tender mercies, O Jehovah,{HR}And thy kindness, for they [are] from everlasting.
⁷The sins of my youth and my transgressions remember thou not;{HR}According to thy mercy remember thou me,{HR}For thy goodness sake, O Jehovah. (Psa. 25:6‑7)

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Psa. 109:21• ²¹But thou, Jehovah Lord, do with me for thy name's sake;{HR}Because thy mercy [is] good, deliver me. (Psa. 109:21)

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Psa. 119:124• ¹²⁴Do with thy servant according to thy mercy,{HR}And thy statutes teach me. (Psa. 119:124)

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Ex. 34:6‑7• ⁶And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,
⁷keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. (Ex. 34:6‑7)

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Num. 14:18‑19• ¹⁸Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
¹⁹Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. (Num. 14:18‑19)

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Dan. 9:9,18• ⁹With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;
¹⁸Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies. (Dan. 9:9,18)

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Mic. 7:18• ¹⁸Who is a God like unto thee, that forgiveth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in loving-kindness. (Mic. 7:18)

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Mic. 7:19• ¹⁹He will yet again have compassion on us, he will tread under foot our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. (Mic. 7:19)

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Rom. 5:20‑21• ²⁰But law came in by the way, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded
²¹that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness unto life eternal by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:20‑21)

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Eph. 1:6‑8• ⁶unto [the] praise of [the] glory of his grace, wherein he made us objects of grace in the beloved;
⁷in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace,
⁸which he caused to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligence, (Eph. 1:6‑8)

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Eph. 2:4‑7• ⁴but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved),
⁶and raised together and seated together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,
⁷that he might show forth in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 2:4‑7)

multitude.

Psa. 5:7• ⁷But as for me, in the greatness of thy mercy I will come into thy house,{HR}I will worship towards the temple of thy holiness in thy fear. (Psa. 5:7)

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Psa. 69:13,16• ¹³But as for me, my prayer [is] to thee,{HR}O Jehovah (in) an acceptable time;{HR}O God, in the abundance of thy mercy answer me,{HR}In the truth of thy salvation.
¹⁶Answer me, O Jehovah, for good [is] thy mercy;{HR}According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn unto me; (Psa. 69:13,16)

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Psa. 106:7,45• ⁷Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders;{HR}They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies,{HR}But rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant,{HR}And repented according to the multitude of his mercies; (Psa. 106:7,45)

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Isa. 63:7,15• ⁷I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
¹⁵Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory. Where [is] thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies? Are they restrained toward me? (Isa. 63:7,15)

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Isa. 63• (Isa. 63)

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Lam. 3:32• ³²but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. (Lam. 3:32)

tender.

Psa. 40:11• ¹¹Thou, O Jehovah, wilt not withhold thy compassion from me;{HR}Thy mercy and thy truth will always preserve me. (Psa. 40:11)

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Psa. 77:9• ⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious?{HR}Or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:9)

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Psa. 145:9• ⁹Good (is) Jehovah to the universe (the all),{HR}And his tender mercies [are] over all his works. (Psa. 145:9)

blot.

Psa. 51:9• ⁹Hide thy face from my sins,{HR}And blot out all mine iniquities. (Psa. 51:9)

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Neh. 4:5• ⁵and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders. (Neh. 4:5)

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Isa. 43:25• ²⁵I, I [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins. (Isa. 43:25)

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Isa. 44:22• ²²I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me, for I have redeemed thee. (Isa. 44:22)

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Jer. 18:23• ²³Yet thou, Jehovah, knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger. (Jer. 18:23)

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Acts 3:19• ¹⁹Repent therefore, and be converted for the blotting out of your sins, so that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, (Acts 3:19)

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Col. 2:14• ¹⁴having blotted out the handwriting in ordinances [that was] against us, which was contrary to us; and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to his cross; (Col. 2:14)

• God, had announced judgment. Here mercy is looked for by the divinely moved soul, that He who alone can do it should make us clean, as is suiting to Himself; for the soul thus taught, feels it has to do with God, and looks for cleansing suited for that. (book #15594)

• Book 2, Series 1. Appendix Psalm. (““The Placement of the Psalms in Prophecy”” by B. Anstey)

• {Overview} The experiences of a repentant soul, anticipating the confession of sin by the godly Jewish remnant in the last days, when they humble themselves before God for the rejection and murder of Christ (vs. 14). (“Psalm 51” by H. Smith)

• The psalm opens with a repentant man appealing to the grace and loving-kindness of God. He sees that with God there is an “abundance” (JND) of tender mercies, and therefore God’s mercy is greater than his sin. (“Psalm 51” by H. Smith)

• This psalm gives the response to the charges laid in the previous psalm. They were exhorted to call upon the Lord in the day of trouble. Now broken in repentance the remnant do so. (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

• So deep is the repentance that they {the remnant} trace it to the root—the sin nature (vs. 1-6). (“Book 2.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

W. Kelly Translation

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To the chief musician, a psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him after he went unto Bathsheba.{HR}Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy mercy:{HR}According to the multitude of thy compassions blot out my transgressions.