“To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.” The cumulative effect of David’s sin and these confessions and declarations underscores how absolutely overwhelming David’s guilt really is to him. Here is a guilty and repentant sinner in extreme private anguish before a righteous God. While David is devastated over his sin and rightly pours out his anguish to God in Psalm 51, he also praises God in the midst of his remorse.