It’s not that David is unrepentant of the harm he has caused Bathsheba, Uriah, and countless others. The point is that David is repenting of the sin that lies beneath these actions, the sin all of us would rather avoid. He names this sin right after in verse 5: “I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
Quentin Tarantino and Once Upon a Time in Israel
Jesus and the New Testament—good.
Yahweh and the Old Testament—not really so good.
So goes the popular, but largely whispered, dichotomy.