THEN SHALT THOU BE PLEASED WITH THE SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - “Then,” that is, when God should have thus showed favor to Zion; when he should have poured out his blessing on Jerusalem; when religi...
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
Prayer of Israel in exile for the restoration of Jerusalem and the renewal of the Temple worship. Reasons have already been given for thinking that these verses are not part of the original Psalm, bu...
_Then shalt thou be pleased with_ R.V., Then shalt thou delight in, as in Psalms 51:16. _the sacrifices of righteousness_ Those offered in a right spirit. Cp. Psalms 4:5; Deuteronomy 33:19. with burn...
DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE, &C.— It has been observed, that this and the next verse seem plainly to shew this Psalm to have been written during the captivity, and therefore the title to be wrong; an...
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....
_THEN WILL I TEACH TRANSGRESSORS THY WAYS; AND SINNERS SHALL BE CONVERTED UNTO THEE._ -He promises spiritual sacrifices of praise, and efforts for the conversion of other transgressors, as the fruit o...
51:19 have (e-4) Or 'take delight in.' see vers. 6,16....
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....
BE PLEASED WITH] RV 'delight in.' BURNT offering and whole burnt offering] two expressions for the same sacrifice, the one emphasising its being burnt, the other the completeness with which it was con...
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...
_[Psalms 51:21]_ אָ֤ז תַּחְפֹּ֣ץ זִבְחֵי ־צֶ֭דֶק עֹולָ֣ה...
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 SACRIFICES GOD ACCEPTS Psalms 51:11 It is not enough to be forgiven; the true penitent longs to be kept from breaking out into the old sins. He desires a _clean_ heart that abhors the least taint...
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...
Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of (q) righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. (q) That is, just and lawful, appli...
Observe how the interests of Zion still lay near David's heart. This was the most solemn moment David had ever seen, when one might have thought his own personal sorrows would have swallowed up the co...
REFLECTIONS READER! let you and I look at this man after God's own heart, and tremble in the recollection of what man is in his highest attainments, if left for one moment void of grace. Oh! what an i...
19_Then shalt thou accept sacrifices of righteousness _In these words there is an apparent, but only an apparent, inconsistency with others which he had used in the preceding context. He had declared...
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...
THEN SHALL THOU BE PLEASED WITH THE SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Which must be different from the legal ones he desired not, and did not delight in, Psalms 51:16; but design sacrifices under the G...
Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. Ver. 19. _Then shalt thou be pleased wi...
_Then_ When thou hast granted my humble requests, expressed in the former verses; when thou hast renewed, and pardoned, and comforted me, and restored thy favour unto thy people and this city; _shalt...
NEW OBEDIENCE AS A FRUIT OF FAITH...
Then shalt Thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering, David being ready, in the consciousness of the righteousness imputed to him and in the ea...
16-19 Those who are thoroughly convinced of their misery and danger by sin, would spare no cost to obtain the remission of it. But as they cannot make satisfaction for sin, so God cannot take any sat...
THEN; when thou hast granted my humble requests expressed in the former verses, when thou hast renewed, and pardoned, and comforted me, and restored thy favour unto thy people and this city. THE SACRI...
Psalms 51:19 pleased H2654 (H8799) sacrifices H2077 righteousness H6664 offering H5930 whole H3632 offering H5930 offer...
A PRAYER FOR THE PROSPERITY OF JERUSALEM (PSALMS 51:18). The Psalm as it now stands ends with this prayer. It was possibly not a part of the original Psalm, (which was David's written confession), but...
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...
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...
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...
_Then shalt Thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering._ SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS They are called the sacrifices of righteousness, which are...
_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;...
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...
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...