Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
⛓ Read Psalm 51 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'According to your great mercy' echoes the Psalter's 'according to the abundance of your mercy'; low volume but a fixed liturgical collocation.
Low confidence'blot out my transgressions' supplies the same penitential idiom behind v. 19; coheres with the call to repent, though Isa 43 is the closer match.
Low confidenceThe plea to blot out my transgressions according to your mercy supplies the same image of erasing the written debt of sin that stands against the sinner. Coherent but diffuse, hence a faint echo.
Low confidence'Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love' is the best-known of the mercy-pleas and shapes the form of Bartimaeus' cry. It supplies the penitential-petition register. Contested and low: the cry is a stock liturgical phrase rather than a citation of this psalm specifically.
Low confidence