Psalms 51:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.”
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“Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 51:1 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 34:6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
- Numbers 14:18‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
- 2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- Nehemiah 4:5Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
- Psalms 4:1Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
- Psalms 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
- Psalms 25:6Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
- Psalms 40:11O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
- Psalms 51:9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
- Psalms 69:13But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
- Psalms 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
- Psalms 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah
- Psalms 106:7Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
- Psalms 106:45And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
- Psalms 109:21But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.
- Psalms 119:124Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.
- Psalms 145:9The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
- Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Isaiah 63:7I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
- Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
- Jeremiah 18:23But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
- Lamentations 3:32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
- Daniel 9:9To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him
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