GRACE UPON GRACE

1 SAMUEL 25:15-35 BUT THE MEN WERE VERY  GOOD UNTO US, AND WE  WERE NOT HURT,  NEITHER  MISSED WE ANY THING,  AS LONG AS WE WERE  CONVERSANT WITH THEM,  WHEN WE WERE IN THE FIELDS:  THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US  BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY,  ALL THE WHILE WE WERE  WITH THEM KEEPING THE SHEEP.  NOW THEREFORE  KNOW AND CONSIDER WHAT  THOU WILT DO;  FOR EVIL IS DETERMINED  AGAINST OUR MASTER,  AND AGAINST ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD:  FOR HE IS SUCH A SON OF BELIAL,  THAT A MAN CANNOT SPEAK TO HIM.   THEN ABIGAIL MADE HASTE,  AND TOOK TWO HUNDRED LOAVES,  AND TWO BOTTLES OF WINE,  AND FIVE SHEEP READY DRESSED, AND FIVE MEASURES OF PARCHED  CORN, AND AN HUNDRED  CLUSTERS OF RAISINS,  AND TWO HUNDRED CAKES OF FIGS,   AND LAID THEM ON ASSES.  AND SHE SAID UNTO HER SERVANTS,  GO ON BEFORE ME; BEHOLD,  I COME AFTER YOU.  BUT SHE TOLD NOT  HER HUSB...

PSALM 51 HAVE MERCY UPON ME,  O GOD, ACCORDING TO THY LOVINGKINDNESS:  ACCORDING UNTO THE  MULTITUDE OF THY TENDER  MERCIES BLOT OUT MY  TRANSGRESSIONS.  WASH  ME THROUGHLY FROM  MINE INIQUITY, AND CLEANSE  ME FROM MY SIN.  FOR I ACKNOWLEDGE MY  TRANSGRESSIONS: AND MY  SIN IS EVER BEFORE ME.  AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY,  HAVE I SINNED, AND DONE  THIS EVIL IN THY SIGHT:  THAT THOU MIGHTEST  BE  JUSTIFIED WHEN THOU SPEAKEST,  AND BE CLEAR WHEN  THOU JUDGEST.  BEHOLD,  I WAS SHAPEN IN INIQUITY;  AND IN SIN DID MY MOTHER  CONCEIVE ME.  BEHOLD,  THOU DESIREST TRUTH  IN THE INWARD PARTS:  AND IN THE HIDDEN PART  THOU SHALT MAKE ME TO  KNOW WISDOM.  PURGE ME  WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL  BE CLEAN:  WASH ME,  AND I SHALL BE WHITER  THAN SNOW. MAKE ME TO HEAR  JOY AND GLADNESS;  THAT THE BONES WHICH  THOU HAST...