Psalms 51:1

David pleads for mercy and the blotting out of his sins, appealing not to his merit but to God's steadfast love and abundant compassion. This is the model prayer of repentance.

Cross-references · 31

• Acts 3:19“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
• Isa 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
• Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
• Ps 51:9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
• Col 2:14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
• Ps 69:16Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
• 2 Sam 11:2At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
• Eph 1:6–8to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• Ps 25:6–7Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
• Ps 4:1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David. Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
• Ps 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Lam 3:32For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• Eph 2:4–7But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Ps 119:124Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.
• Ps 40:11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
• Num 14:18–19‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
• Ps 109:21But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
• Ps 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
• Ps 106:7Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
• Ps 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
• Isa 63:15Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
• Ps 145:9Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
• Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;
• Isa 63:7I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Jer 18:23Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you. Deal you with them in the time of your anger.
• Ps 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.
• Neh 4:5don’t cover their iniquity, and don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
• Dan 9:18My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

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