George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 51:6
Ruin. Septuagint Greek: katapontismou, "drowning," or to make the innocent suffer "shipwreck."
Ruin. Septuagint Greek: katapontismou, "drowning," or to make the innocent suffer "shipwreck."
Verse Psalms 51:6. _BEHOLD, THOU DESIREST TRUTH_] I am the very reverse of what I should be. _Thou desirest truth in the heart_; but in me there is nothing but sin and falsity. _THOU SHALT MAKE ME TO...
BEHOLD, THOU DESIREST TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS - The word rendered “desirest,” means to have pleasure in; to delight in; and the idea is that this only is agreeable to God, or this only accords with...
Psalms 51 The Confession _ 1. Conviction and prayer for forgiveness (Psalms 51:1)_ 2. Prayer for cleansing and restoration (Psalms 51:9) 3. Blood guiltiness acknowledged ...
LI. A PENITENTIAL PSALM. Psalms 51:1. Prayer for pardon and inward renewal. Psalms 51:13. A promise to proclaim God's mercy and bring sinners back to Him. Psalms 51:18 f. Prayer for the restoration
IN THE INWARD PARTS. More than the external acts. Hebrew. _tuchoth._ Only here and Job 38:36. MAKE ME, &C. See note on Job 28:28. We need this _making,_ for this wisdom is from above. Compare 2 Timot...
He has inherited a sinful nature; and yet, so he is confident, God can and will make it conform to His desire. The emphatic -Behold!" marks the beginning of a new stanza....
_truth in the inward parts_ In the most secret springs of thought and will, unseen by man but known to God, He desires _truth_, perfect sincerity, whole-hearted devotion, incapable of deluding self, a...
DISCOURSE: 588 THE IMPORTANCE OF INWARD INTEGRITY Psalms 51:6. _Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom._ MANKIND at large are chiefl...
BEHOLD, THOU DESIREST TRUTH, &C.— The common interpretation here is, that David makes mention of God's loving sincerity, in the _inward parts, i.e._ the mind and spirit, by way of aggravating his own...
PSALMS 51 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Prayer of a Penitent. ANALYSIS Stanza I, Psalms 51:1-4., Petitions for Pardon and Cleansing sustained by Confessions, Condemning Self and Vindicating God. Stanza II....
_BEHOLD, THOU DESIREST TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS: AND IN THE HIDDEN PART THOU SHALT MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM._ Behold. The repetition of exclamation (cf. Psalms 51:5) implies the close connection of Ps...
51:6 have (a-4) Lit. 'desirest,' 'takest delight in.'...
TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS] truth as opposed to self-deception or conscious hypocrisy, in the inward parts as opposed to mere superficial goodness. THOU SHALT MAKE ME TO KNOW] God is willing to give wh...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David: when Nathan the prophet' came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.' It is impossible not to feel the general appropriateness of this Ps....
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
TRUTH. — Or, _faithfulness._ INWARD PARTS. — The Hebrew word is found only once besides (Job 38:36), where it is in parallelism with “heart.” The sincerity and true self-discernment which God requir...
_[Psalms 51:8]_ הֵן ־אֱ֭מֶת חָפַ֣צְתָּ בַ †...
Psalms 51:1 THE main grounds on which the Davidic authorship of this psalm is denied are four. First, it is alleged that its conceptions of sin and penitence are in advance of his stage of religious d...
THE PRAYER OF THE CONTRITE HEART Psalms 51:1 This psalm is a ladder which climbs from the horrible pit, with its miry clay, into the heights of sunny joy, where the song breaks from the forgiven peni...
This is the first of a number of psalms (eighteen) to which titles are prefaced which connect them with David, eight out of the number having historic references. There is a remarkable fitness in ever...
Behold, thou (f) desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom. (f) He confesses that God who loves pureness of heart, may justly destroy man, who by...
He here goes back to the source of all sin, in original depravity! What hyssop shall purge this away, what washing of water will make this clean? Oh! how blessed is it do behold Christ, whose blood al...
6._Behold, thou hast desired truth, etc. _This verse confirms the remark which we already made, that David was far from seeking to invent an apology for his sin, when he traced it back to the period o...
Psalms 51 is the true remnant's confession. They have fully entered into the mind of God (see Psalms 51:16). There is true and complete humiliation for sin before God, yet confidence in Him. He is loo...
BEHOLD, THOU DESIREST TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS,.... With delight and pleasure, as the word d signifies: meaning either Christ, the truth and the life, formed and dwelling in the hearts of his people;...
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Ver. 6. _Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts_] _Quam tamen mihi defuisse res i...
_Behold, thou desirest_ Hebrew, חפצת, _chaphatzta, delightest in, willest_, or _requirest, truth in the inward parts_ Uprightness of heart, which seems to be here opposed to that iniquity mentioned in...
DAVID'S PENITENTIAL PRAYER. To the chief musician, for public performance, as an open confession of David's sin before the whole congregation, showing that his repentance was of the right kind, a psal...
Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts, without the slightest deceit and hypocrisy to mar the value of his confession of sin; AND IN THE HIDDEN PART THOU SHALT MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM, namely,...
1-6 David, being convinced of his sin, poured out his soul to God in prayer for mercy and grace. Whither should backsliding children return, but to the Lord their God, who alone can heal them? he dre...
THOU DESIREST; or, _delightest in_; or, _requirest_; Heb. _willest. Truth_ either, 1. Sincerity in confessing my sins; which therefore I have now acknowledged, though hitherto I have practised much f...
Psalms 51:6 desire H2654 (H8804) truth H571 parts H2910 hidden H5640 (H8803) know H3045 (H8686) wisdom...
DAVID FREELY AND OPENLY ADMITS HIS TOTAL SINFULNESS AND GUILT (PSALMS 51:3). David tells God that he now knows the truth about himself. He no longer dismisses what he has done as unimportant because h...
Psalms 51 David, in the opening of this Psalm, appeals for mercy. No penitent man ever approached God on the side of His justice. The Pharisee, indeed, appeals to righteousness; but the publican appe...
Psalms 51:6 We are never more in danger of forgetting that we are sinners than when contemplating the sufferings and death of Him who died to save us from our sins. Like the first tearful spectators o...
May God graciously grant to all of us the grace which shall enable us to enter into the penitential spirit which is so remarkable in this Psalm! Psalms 51:1. _Have mercy upon me, O God,_ He breaks t...
A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, and rebuked him, in the name of God, for his great sin with Bathsheba. Psalms 51:1. _Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindess:...
It is a Psalm, and therefore it is to be sung. It is dedicated to the chief Musician, and there is music in it, but it needs a trained ear to catch the harmony. The sinner with a broken heart will und...
Psalms 51:1. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and clea...
A Psalm of David, after Nathan had rebuked him, and he had been convinced of his great guilt in having sinned with Bathsheba. The music to which this Psalm can be sung must be composed of sighs, and g...
Although we may have been preserved by divine grace from any gross and open sin, yet let us read this Psalm in the spirit of penitence. I always feel afraid of myself if I cannot read this Psalm from...
This is a portion of Scripture, which can never be read too often. If any among us have never found mercy, let them use this Psalm as their own personal prayer; while those who have found mercy can re...
Let us read two Psalms of penitence. Repentance, and faith go hand in hand all the way to heaven. Repenting and believing make up a large measure of the Christian life. First, let us read the 51 st Ps...
There are many sweet notes in Christian music, but to my own heart there is none so softly, tenderly, sweet as the note of repentance. Full assurance rings out her clarion trumpet strain, and we ought...
There are seven penitential Psalms, but this seems to be the chief one of the seven. The language of David is as suitable to us today as it was to him, and though much was lost to the cause of righteo...
Psalms 51:1. _Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions._ There may be some people who think themselves...
This Psalm is dedicated to the chief musician, so that it was intended to be sung. Yet it is not by any means a joyous piece of music. It seems more fit to be sung or sighed as a solo for the solitary...
We will first read Psalms 51:1 : If we need any music to this Psalm, we must have the liquid melody of tears, sighs, cries, entreaties. It is above all the others, the penitential Psalm. It is the Psa...
CONTENTS: The penitential prayer of David. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: All the believer's wrong doing comes to a climax at the foot of the throne, being violation of God's law. While the pena...
The title of this psalm, supported by the whole weight of rabbinical authority, and by the LXX, refers it to the repentance and recovery of David, “when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had...
_Behold Thou desirest truth in the inward parts._ TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS Some of us may remember the interesting story with which the apocryphal Book of Esdras commences. The inquiry is started, “...
_Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me._ ORIGINAL DEPRAVITY Men may come upon this doctrine one of two different ways. 1. As a dogma in theology. The first thing tha...
_Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness._ THE FIFTY-FIRST PSALM A darker guilt you will scarcely find--kingly power abused--worst passions yielded to. Yet this psalm breathes from...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 51:1. This is probably the best known of the “Penitential Psalms” (Psalms 6:1;...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 51:6 One who is repentant craves a fresh sense of God’s presence (vv. Psalms 51:8, Psalms 51:11),
INTRODUCTION THE superscription informs us both as to the author of the psalm, and the occasion of its composition. “To the Chief Musician, a Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, aft...
EXPOSITION THIS is the first of a series of fifteen psalms assigned by their titles to David, and mostly attached to special circumstances in his life, which are said to have furnished the occasions f...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 51:1-19. David is surely one of the most outstanding characters of the Old Testament. He was greatly hated and greatly loved. He had the capacity to inspire t...
1 Chronicles 29:17; 1 Peter 3:4; 1 Samuel 16:7; 2 Chronicles 31:20;...
A PENITENT'S PRAYER Psalms 51:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We will set forth, by way of introduction, the story of David's sin and of how he was reproved by Nathan, the Prophet. We may also emphasize how D...
Truth — Uprightness of heart; and this may be added; as an aggravation of the sinfulness of original corruption, because it is contrary to the holy nature and will of God, which requires rectitude of...