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1To the chief Musician{H8764)}, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came{H8800)} unto him, after he had gone in{H8804)} to Bathsheba. Have mercy{H8798)} upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out{H8798)} my transgressions.

Psalms 51:1

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-6)

The title has reference to a very sad story, that of David’s fall. But, though he fell, he was not utterly cast down, for God graciously upheld him and raised him up. 1. The sin which, in this psalm, he laments, was the folly and wickedness he committed with his neighbour’s wife, a sin not to be spoken of, nor thought of, without detestation. His debauching of Bathsheba was the inlet to all the ot...

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