Psalms 51:5

Psalms 51:5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

"I am bad from the fountain-head of my being, and wrong all through. It is not only what I do that is wrong, but I myself am wrong; I am a double-dyed traitor, and of a traitress born." I doubt not that David’s mother was as good as any mother probably she was a true child of God; but, for all that, David and all of us have the old tendency to sin from the very fact of our descent from fallen parents. "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one."