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9Hide{H8685)} thy face from my sins, and blot out{H8798)} all mine iniquities.
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For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. …
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;
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.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)I. See here what David prays for. Many excellent petitions he here puts up, to which if we do but add, “for Christ’s sake,” they are as evangelical as any other. 1. He prays that God would cleanse him from his sins and the defilement he had contracted by them (Ps. 51:7): “ Purge me with hyssop ; that is, pardon my sins, and let me know that they are pardoned, that I may be restored to those privil…
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