Daily Readings in the Bible Psalms 46-51

David’s sin with Bathsheba, and the murder of her husband, are quite the stains on an otherwise illustrious life (2 Sam. 11:1-27).

From this failure, and the prophetic confrontation that followed, we are given David’s prayer of repentance in Psalm fifty-one.

David uses three words to describe his failure (Ps. 51:3-5,9,13): transgression, iniquity, and sin. In the original language “transgress” meant “to rebel.” Another definition for transgress is to “go beyond.” David rebelled and went beyond G...