Psalms 51:3

3 quid gloriatur in malitia qui potens est iniquitate

Psalms 51:3 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 51:3

For I acknowledge my transgressions
Before God and man. Acknowledgment of sin is what the Lord requires, and promises forgiveness upon, and therefore is used here as a plea for it; and moreover the psalmist had done so before, and had succeeded in this way, which must encourage him to take the same course again; see ( Psalms 32:5 ) ;

and my sin [is] ever before me;
staring him in the face; gnawing upon his conscience, and filling him with remorse and distress; so that his life was a burden to him: for though God had put away sin out of his own sight, so that he would not condemn him for it, and he should not die; notwithstanding as yet it was not caused to pass from David, or the guilt of it removed from his conscience.

Psalms 51:3 In-Context

1 in finem intellectus David

2 cum venit Doec Idumeus et adnuntiavit Saul et dixit venit David in domo Achimelech

3 quid gloriatur in malitia qui potens est iniquitate

4 tota die iniustitiam cogitavit lingua tua sicut novacula acuta fecisti dolum

5 dilexisti malitiam super benignitatem iniquitatem magis quam loqui aequitatem diapsalma