And the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to David; and he went in to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor.

But the poor [man had] only one little ewe lamb, which he had purchased, and preserved, and reared; and it grew up with himself and his children in common; it ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.

And David was greatly moved with anger against the man; and David said to Nathan, [As] the Lord lives, the man that did this thing shall surely die.

And Nathan said to David, You are the man that has done this! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: I anointed you to be king over Israel, and I rescued you out the hand of Saul;

Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in His eyes? You have slain Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and you have taken his wife to be your wife, and you have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your [own] house, and I will take your wives from before your eyes, and will give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylight.

And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die.

And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her. And she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house.

And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

And David said to Uriah, Go to your house, and wash your feet. And Uriah departed from the house of the king, and a portion [of meat] from the king followed him.

And they brought David word, saying, Uriah has not gone down to his house. And David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a [long] journey? Why have you not gone down to your house?

And David said to Uriah, Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will let you go. So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the day following.

And the morning came, and David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

And it came to pass while Joab was watching against the city, that he set Uriah in a place where he knew that valiant men were.

And Joab sent, and reported to David all the events of the war, so as to tell them to the king.

then it shall come to pass if the anger of the king shall arise, and he shall say to you, Why did you draw near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from off the wall?

And the messenger of Joab went to the king to Jerusalem, and he came and reported to David all that Joab had told him, all the affairs of the war. And David was very angry with Joab, and said to the messenger, Why did you draw near to the wall to fight? Did you not know that you would be wounded from off the wall? Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal? Did not a woman cast upon him a piece of millstone from the wall, and he died in Thebez? Why did you draw near to the wall?

And the archers shot at your servants from off the wall, and some of the king's servants died, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

And the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, and she mourned for her husband.

Remember Your compassions, O Lord, and Your mercies, for they are from everlasting.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor [my sins] of ignorance; remember me according to Your mercy, for Your goodness' sake, O Lord.

But You, O Lord, my Lord, deal [mercifully] with me, for Your name's sake; for Your mercy is good.

Deal with Your servant according to Your mercy, and teach me Your statutes.

And the Lord passed by before his face, and proclaimed, The Lord God, gracious and merciful, longsuffering and very compassionate, and true,

and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity and unrighteousness and sins; and He will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children's children, to the third and fourth generation.

The Lord [is] longsuffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and He shall by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

Forgive this people their sin according to Your great mercy, as You were favorable to them from Egypt until now.

To you, O Lord our God, [belong] compassion and forgiveness, whereas we have departed [from You.]

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of the city which is called by Your name; for we do not bring our pitiful case before You on [the grounds of] our righteousness, but [because of] Your manifold compassions, O Lord.

Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy.

He will return and have mercy upon us; He will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins.

But [the] law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved.

which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and insight,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

and raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

But I will enter into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy; I will worship in Your fear toward Your holy temple.

But I [will cry] to You, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of Your mercy hear me, in the truth of Your salvation.

Hear me, O Lord; for Your mercy is good: according to the multitude of Your compassions, look upon me.

Our fathers in Egypt understood not Your wonders, and remembered not the multitude of Your mercy; but provoked [Him] as they went up by the Red Sea.

And He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercy.

I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the praises of the Lord in all things in which He recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; He deals with us according to His mercy, and according to the abundance of His righteousness.

Turn from heaven, and look from Your holy habitation and [from] Your glory; where is Your zeal and Your strength? Where is the abundance of Your mercy and of Your compassions, that You have withheld Yourself from us?

CHAPH. For He that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of His mercy.

But You, O Lord, remove not Your compassion far from me; Your mercy and Your truth have helped me continually.

Will God forget to pity? Or will He shut up His compassions in His wrath? Pause.

The Lord is good to those that wait [on Him]; and His compassions are over all His works.

Turn away Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

and do not cover [their] iniquity.

I, [even] I, am He that blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and your sins; and I will remember [them] no more.

For behold, I have blotted your transgressions out as a cloud, and your sin as darkness; turn to Me, and I will redeem you.

And You, O Lord, know all their deadly counsel against me: provide no atonement for their iniquities, and do not blot out their sins from before You. Let their weakness come before You; deal with them in the time of Your wrath.

Repent therefore and turn back, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that seasons of relaxation may come from the presence of the Lord,

having blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and He has taken it out of the midst, nailing it to the cross.