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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.
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Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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