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Have mercy on me, God, according to your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
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Mercy, Not Merit
Commentators unanimously highlight that David's plea for forgiveness is not based on his past deeds or any personal merit. Instead, he appeals directly to God's character—His 'lovingkindness' and 'multitude of tender mercies.' This teaches that the only ground for our hope of pardon is the boundless, compassionate nature of God Himself, not anything we have done or can do.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Blot out. — The figure is most probably, as in Exodus 32:32-33, taken from the custom of erasing a written record ([Reference Psal…
Baptist
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness:
No eye can discern the tender attributes of God like an eye that is so…
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16th Century
Protestant
Have mercy upon me. David begins, as I have already remarked, by praying for pardon; and his sin having been of an aggravated description,…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding psalms of this group of ten, the psalmist seemed to discuss matters that pertain to the state of the kingdom, whose glor…
