Psalms 25:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For thy name's sake That is, for the honour of thy goodness and truth, which is concerned herein, pardon mine iniquity, for it is great And therefore only such a merciful and gracious God as thou art can pardon it, and nothing but thy own name can move thee to do it; and the pardoning of it will well become so great and good a God, and will tend much to the illustration of thy glory, as the greatness and desperateness of the disease advanceth the honour and praise of the physician that cures it; or this may be urged, not as an argument to move God, but as the reason that moved him to pray so earnestly for pardon: as if he had said, It is great, and therefore I am undone, for ever undone, if infinite mercy do not interpose to forgive it. Or, I see it to be great, I acknowledge it to be so, and am penitent for it, and therefore, according to thy promises to the penitent, forgive it. Or, though it be great, as the particle כי, chi, is often rendered. Possibly he speaks of his sin against Uriah and Bathsheba.