God, have mercy on me according to your faithful love. Because your love is so tender and kind, wipe out my lawless acts.

神啊，求你按你的慈爱怜恤我！按你丰盛的慈悲涂抹我的过犯！

上帝啊，求你按你的慈爱恩待我！按你丰盛的怜悯涂去我的过犯！

神啊，求你按你的慈爱恩待我！按你丰盛的怜悯涂去我的过犯！

上帝啊，求你怜悯我，因为你的慈爱永不改变；求你除去我的过犯，因为你有无限的怜悯。

神啊！求你按着你的慈爱恩待我，照着你丰盛的怜悯涂抹我的过犯。

神哪，求你照着你的慈爱恩待我，照着你丰盛的怜悯抹掉我的过犯！

神啊，求你按你的慈愛憐恤我！按你豐盛的慈悲塗抹我的過犯！

上帝啊，求你按你的慈愛恩待我！按你豐盛的憐憫塗去我的過犯！

神啊，求你按你的慈愛恩待我！按你豐盛的憐憫塗去我的過犯！

上帝啊，求你憐憫我，因為你的慈愛永不改變；求你除去我的過犯，因為你有無限的憐憫。

神啊！求你按著你的慈愛恩待我，照著你豐盛的憐憫塗抹我的過犯。

上帝啊，按你堅固之愛恩待我！按你豐盛的慈悲塗抹我的過犯哦！

神哪，求你照著你的慈愛恩待我，照著你豐盛的憐憫抹掉我的過犯！

上帝歟、依爾恩惠憫我躬、循爾鴻慈塗我過兮、

上帝矜恤無涯、憐憫乎我、塗抹我愆尤、

求天主按主之恩惠矜恤我、以主大憐憫、塗抹我之愆尤、

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.

Be gracious to me, God, according to your faithful love; according to your abundant compassion, blot out my rebellion.

Be gracious to me, God, according to Your faithfulness; According to the greatness of Your compassion, wipe out my wrongdoings.

Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Be gracious to me, God, according to Your faithful love; according to Your abundant compassion, blot out my rebellion.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

So turn away from your sins. Turn to God. Then your sins will be wiped away. The time will come when the Lord will make everything new.

“ I am the one who wipes out your lawless acts. I do it because of who I am. I will not remember your sins anymore.

I will sweep your sins away as if they were a cloud. I will blow them away as if they were the morning mist. Return to me. Then I will set you free.”

Take away all my sins. Wipe away all the evil things I’ve done.

Lord, answer me because your love is so good. Turn to me because you are so kind.

He wiped out what the law said that we owed. The law stood against us. It judged us. But he has taken it away and nailed it to the cross.

One evening David got up from his bed. He walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman taking a bath. She was very beautiful.David sent a messenger to find out who she was. The messenger returned and said,“ She is Bathsheba. She’s the daughter of Eliam. She’s the wife of Uriah. He’s a Hittite.”Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him. And he slept with her. Then she went back home. All of that took place after she had already made herself“ clean” from her monthly period.Later, Bathsheba found out she was pregnant. She sent a message to David. She said,“ I’m pregnant.”So David sent a message to Joab. David said,“ Send me Uriah, the Hittite.” Joab sent him to David.Uriah came to David. David asked him how Joab and the soldiers were doing. He also asked him how the war was going.David said to Uriah,“ Go home and enjoy some time with your wife.” So Uriah left the palace. Then the king sent him a gift.But Uriah didn’t go home. Instead, he slept at the entrance to the palace. He stayed there with all his master’s servants.David was told,“ Uriah didn’t go home.” So he sent for Uriah. David said to him,“ You have been away for a long time. Why didn’t you go home?”Uriah said to David,“ The ark and the army of Israel and Judah are out there in tents. My commander Joab and your special troops are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink? How could I go there and sleep with my wife? I could never do a thing like that. And that’s just as sure as you are alive!”Then David said to him,“ Stay here one more day. Tomorrow I’ll send you back to the battle.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him. David got him drunk. But Uriah still didn’t go home. In the evening he went out and slept on his mat. He stayed there among his master’s servants.The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab. He sent it along with Uriah.In it he wrote,“ Put Uriah out in front. That’s where the fighting is the heaviest. Then pull your men back from him. When you do, the Ammonites will strike him down and kill him.”So Joab attacked the city. He put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest enemy fighters were.The troops came out of the city. They fought against Joab. Some of the men in David’s army were killed. Uriah, the Hittite, also died.Joab sent David a full report of the battle.He told the messenger,“ Tell the king everything that happened in the battle. When you are finished,his anger might explode. He might ask you,‘ Why did you go so close to the city to fight against it? Didn’t you know that the enemy soldiers would shoot arrows down from the wall?Don’t you remember how Abimelek, the son of Jerub- Besheth, was killed? A woman dropped a large millstone on him from the wall. That’s how he died in Thebez. So why did you go so close to the wall?’ If the king asks you that, tell him,‘ And your servant Uriah, the Hittite, is also dead.’ ”The messenger started out for Jerusalem. When he arrived there, he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.The messenger said to David,“ The men in the city were more powerful than we were. They came out to fight against us in the open. But we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate.Then those who were armed with bows shot arrows at us from the wall. Some of your special troops were killed. Your servant Uriah, the Hittite, is also dead.”David told the messenger,“ Tell Joab,‘ Don’t get upset over what happened. Swords kill one person as well as another. So keep on attacking the city. Destroy it.’ Tell that to Joab. It will cheer him up.”Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead. She mourned over him.When her time of sadness was over, David had her brought to his house. She became his wife. And she had a son by him. But the Lord wasn’t pleased with what David had done.The Lord sent the prophet Nathan to David. When Nathan came to him, he said,“ Two men lived in the same town. One was rich. The other was poor.The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle.But all the poor man had was one little female lamb. He had bought it. He raised it. It grew up with him and his children. It shared his food. It drank from his cup. It even slept in his arms. It was just like a daughter to him.“ One day a traveler came to the rich man. The rich man wanted to prepare a meal for him. But he didn’t want to kill one of his own sheep or cattle. Instead, he took the little female lamb that belonged to the poor man. Then the rich man cooked it for the traveler who had come to him.”David was very angry with the rich man. He said to Nathan,“ The man who did this must die! And that’s just as sure as the Lord is alive.The man must pay back four times as much as that lamb was worth. How could he do such a thing? And he wasn’t even sorry he had done it.”Then Nathan said to David,“ You are the man! The Lord, the God of Israel, says,‘ I anointed you king over Israel. I saved you from Saul.I gave you everything that belonged to your master Saul. I even put his wives into your arms. I made you king over all the people of Israel and Judah. And if all of that had not been enough for you, I would have given you even more.Why did you turn your back on what I told you to do? You did what is evil in my sight. You made sure that Uriah, the Hittite, would be killed in battle. You took his wife to be your own. You let the men of Ammon kill him with their swords.So time after time members of your own royal house will be killed with swords. That’s because you turned your back on me. You took the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, to be your own.’“ The Lord also says,‘ I am going to bring trouble on you. It will come from your own family. I will take your wives away. Your own eyes will see it. I will give your wives to a man who is close to you. He will sleep with them in the middle of the day.You committed your sins in secret. But I will make sure that the man commits his sin in the middle of the day. Everyone in Israel will see it.’ ”Then David said to Nathan,“ I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan replied,“ The Lord has taken away your sin. You aren’t going to die.

Because they were his people, he remembered his covenant. Because of his great love, he felt sorry for them.

All those things bring praise to his glorious grace. God freely gave us his grace because of the One he loves.We have been set free because of what Christ has done. Because he bled and died our sins have been forgiven. We have been set free because God’s grace is so rich.He poured his grace on us. By giving us great wisdom and understanding,

My faithful God, answer me when I call out to you. Give me rest from my trouble. Have mercy on me. Hear my prayer.

Be good to me, because you love me. Teach me your orders.

‘ I am the Lord. I am slow to get angry. I am full of love. I forgive those who sin. I forgive those who refuse to obey. But I do not let guilty people go without punishing them. I cause the sin of the parents to affect their children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren.’Lord, your love is great. So forgive the sin of these people. Forgive them just as you have done from the time they left Egypt until now.”

As he passed in front of Moses, he called out. He said,“ I am the Lord, the Lord. I am the God who is tender and kind. I am gracious. I am slow to get angry. I am faithful and full of love.I continue to show my love to thousands of people. I forgive those who do evil. I forgive those who refuse to obey me. And I forgive those who sin. But I do not let guilty people go without punishing them. I cause the sins of the parents to affect their children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren.”

Lord, don’t hold back your mercy from me. May your love and faithfulness always keep me safe.

The law was given so that sin would increase. But where sin increased, God’s grace increased even more.Sin ruled and brought death. But grace rules in the lives of those who are right with God. The grace of God brings eternal life. That’s because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done.

But God loves us deeply. He is full of mercy.So he gave us new life because of what Christ has done. He gave us life even when we were dead in sin. God’s grace has saved you.God raised us up with Christ. He has seated us with him in his heavenly kingdom. That’s because we belong to Christ Jesus.He has done it to show the riches of his grace for all time to come. His grace can’t be compared with anything else. He has shown it by being kind to us. He was kind to us because of what Christ Jesus has done.

He might bring suffering. But he will also show loving concern. How great his faithful love is!

Lord, remember your great mercy and love. You have shown them to your people for a long time.Don’t remember the sins I committed when I was young. Don’t remember how often I refused to obey you. Remember me because you love me. Lord, you are good.

Because of your great love I can come into your house. With deep respect I bow down toward your holy temple.

But Lord and King, help me so that you bring honor to yourself. Because your love is so good, save me.

Lord, who is a God like you? You forgive sin. You forgive your people when they do what is wrong. You don’t stay angry forever. Instead, you take delight in showing your faithful love to them.Once again you will show loving concern for us. You will completely wipe out the evil things we’ve done. You will throw all our sins into the bottom of the sea.

I will talk about the kind things the Lord has done. I’ll praise him for everything he’s done for us. He has done many good things for the nation of Israel. That’s because he loves us and is very kind to us.

Our God, please listen to us. The city that belongs to you has been destroyed. Open your eyes and see it. We aren’t asking you to answer our prayers because we are godly. Instead, we’re asking you to do it because you love us so much.

When our people were in Egypt, they forgot about the Lord’ s miracles. They didn’t remember his many kind acts. At the Red Sea they refused to obey him.

But Lord, I pray to you. May this be the time you help me. God, answer me because you love me so much. Save me, as you always do.

You are the Lord our God. You show us your tender love. You forgive us. But we have turned against you.

Lord, look down from heaven. Look down from your holy and glorious throne. Where is your great love for us? Where is your power? Why don’t you show us your tender love and concern?

Has God forgotten to help us? Has he held back his tender love because he was angry?”

The Lord is good to all. He shows deep concern for everything he has made.

Don’t hide your eyes from their guilt. Don’t forgive their sins. They have said bad things about the builders.”

But Lord, you know all about their plans to kill me. Don’t forgive their crimes. Don’t erase their sins from your sight. Destroy my enemies. Punish them when the time to show your anger comes.