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   ocr: Irue contession Psaim 51 Have mercy on me, 0 God, according to your untailing love. according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions (Ps. - 51:1) This poem of remembrance may well be the most impressive outcome of David's sordid affair with Bathsheba. It is - one thing for a king to contess a moral lapse in private to a prophet. It is quite another for him to compose a detailed account of that contession that could be sung throughout the land! All nations have heroes, but srael may be alone in making epic iterature about its greatest hero's Tallings. This eloquent psalm possibly u ...