Have mercy upon me, O God — This is the utterance of a full heart; a heart crushed and broken by the consciousness of sin. The psal…

Blot out. — The figure is most probably, as in Exodus 32:32-33, taken from the custom of erasing a written record ([Reference Psal…

Have mercy upon me, O God, –

He breaks the silence at last, and he does so by crying to God for mercy. Before he says anything else,…

Have mercy upon me. David begins, as I have already remarked, by praying for pardon; and his sin having been of an aggravated description,…

Have mercy upon me, O God
David, under a sense of sin, does not run away from God, but applies to him, and casts him…

David, being convinced of his sin, poured out his soul to God in prayer for mercy and grace. Where should backsliding children return, but to the L…

1. In the preceding psalms of this group of ten, the psalmist seemed to discu matters that pertain to the state of the kingdom, whose glory …