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7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
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I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here we have David’s professions of desire towards God and dependence on him. He often begins his psalms with such professions, not to move God, but to move himself, and to engage himself to answer those professions. I. He professes his desire towards God: Unto thee, O Lord! do I lift up my soul , Ps. 25:1. In the foregoing psalm (Ps. 24:4) it was made the character of a good man that he has not l…
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