Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

25:6-7 Desire for Forgiveness. For God's covenant people to make progress in virtue, they must rely on God's grace and kindness, and not on their own virtue (which comes from God's guidance anyway). The terms mercy, steadfast love, sins, and transgressions evoke Ex. 34:6-7, which tells Israel of God's gracious disposition to them (cf. Ps. 25:10, "faithfulness"). For God to remember something is for him to attend to it in order to act (cf. 8:4; 9:12; 20:3); the faithful ask God to attend to them in mercy rather than according to their sins (cf. 79:8).