Psalms 51:1

Psalms 51:1. Have mercy upon me, O God, -

"Nothing but mercy will meet my case. Thy justice frowns upon me; thine anger frightens me. ‘Have mercy upon me,’ - great mercy, unmeasured mercy, undeserved mercy, - ‘Have mercy upon me, O God,’" -

Psalms 51:1. According to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

David cannot bear himself while he reads the black record, so he prays, "Lord, blot it out! Blot it out from the sight of my eyes; but, chiefly, blot it out from thine eyes. Let not the record stand against me in thy Book of Remembrance. I cannot blot it out; - not even with my blood, much less with my tears; but thou canst blot it out with a Saviour’s blood. Lord, blot it out, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies."