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3For I acknowledge{H8799)} my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

Psalms 51:3

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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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