Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 51:10
Create — Work in me an holy frame of heart, whereby my inward filth may be purged away. Right — Heb. firm or constant, that my resolution may be fixed and unmoveable. Spirit — Temper or disposition of soul.
Create — Work in me an holy frame of heart, whereby my inward filth may be purged away. Right — Heb. firm or constant, that my resolution may be fixed and unmoveable. Spirit — Temper or disposition of soul.
Verse Psalms 51:10. _CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART_] _Mending_ will not avail; my heart is altogether corrupted; it must be _new made_, made as it was in the beginning. This is exactly the sentiment of...
CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD - The word rendered “create,” ברא _b__e__râ'_ - is a word which is properly employed to denote an act of “creation;” that is, of causing something to exist where the...
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
CREATE. Hebrew. _bara'_, as in Genesis 1:1. The new heart is not the old one changed, but newly created: i.e. "begotten" by God, as in John 3:6. RIGHT. steadfast. Compare Psalms 78:37;...
Repeated prayer for pardon, cleansing, and renewal. The change from the future to the imperative (see above) indicates that a fresh division of the Ps. begins here....
_Create in me_ Rather, Create me, i.e. for me. The word is used of the creative operation of God, bringing into being what did not exist before: and so in the parallel line _renew_should be rather mak...
DISCOURSE: 591 TRUE RENOVATION OF HEART Psalms 51:10. _Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me._ PARDON and peace are the first blessings which a penitent will seek. But...
CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART— _A clean heart,_ is a heart free from those impure and disordered passions of which David had too fatally felt the effects, and in possession and under the influence of tho...
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....
_CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD; AND RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT WITHIN ME._ -Prayer for the Spirit fittingly follows his prayers for purification, complete forgiveness, and the joy of assurance. For the...
51:10 steadfast (c-12) Or 'right.'...
CREATE IN ME] RM 'create for me.' RENEW] better, 'make new.' What is sought is something that has never been in the Psalmist's life before. A RIGHT SPIRIT] RM 'a, stedfast spirit,' that will not yiel...
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...
RIGHT SPIRIT. — So LXX. and Vulg.; but the _constant_ of the margin is nearer the Hebrew, and better....
_[Psalms 51:12]_ לֵ֣ב טָ֭הֹור בְּרָא ־לִ֣י אֱלֹהִ֑ים...
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...
(i) Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. (i) He confesses that when God's Spirit is cold in us, to have it again revived, is as a new creation....
_Fruitful. David foretells his own prosperity on the throne, (Worthington) when this wretch shall be no more. (Haydock) --- He was at this time in great perplexity, (Calmet) in banishment from the hou...
Pardon alone, without the renewings of the Holy Ghost, will not complete the mercy. Hence, David prays not only to be cleansed, but to be renewed, to be strengthened by the Holy Ghost against any futu...
_A CLEAN HEART_ ‘Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.’ Psalms 51:10 Three things must happen before anything can be created. The Spirit of God must move upon the f...
10_Create in me a clean heart, O God! _In the previous part of the psalm David has been praying for pardon. He now requests that the grace of the Spirit, which he had forfeited, or deserved to have fo...
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...
CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD,.... Which was now defiled with sin, and of which being convinced, he was led more and more to see the impurity of his heart and nature, from which all his evil actio...
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Ver. 10. _Create in me a clean heart, O God_] His heart was woefully soiled with the filth of sin and the work of grace interrup...
_Hide thy face from my sins_ Do not look upon them with an eye of indignation and wrath, but forgive and forget them. _Create in me a clean heart_ Seeing I have not only defiled myself by these actual...
Create in me a clean heart, O God, the believer's heart having been created anew in conversion, AND RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT WITHIN ME, establishing his heart and soul so that he was sure of his salvation...
NEW OBEDIENCE AS A FRUIT OF FAITH...
A RIGHT SPIRIT: Or, a constant spirit...
7-15 Purge me with hyssop, with the blood of Christ applied to my soul by a lively faith, as the water of purification was sprinkled with a bunch of hyssop. The blood of Christ is called the blood of...
CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART; seeing I have not only defiled myself by these actual sins, but also have a most filthy heart, corrupted even from my birth, PSALMS 51:5, which nothing but God's almighty a...
Psalms 51:10 Create H1254 (H8798) clean H2889 heart H3820 God H430 renew H2318 (H8761) steadfast H3559 ...
A PRAYER FOR TRANSFORMATION (PSALMS 51:10). Genuine repentance seeks not only forgiveness, but transformation of life. It is no good asking for forgiveness if we intend to do it again. So David wanted...
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 51:10 Three things must happen before anything can be created. The Spirit of God must move upon the face of it, the word of God must speak to it, and the blood of Christ must wash it. I. If yo...
Psalms 51:10 I. Here is a remarkable outline of a holy character. Of these three gifts "a right spirit," "Thy Holy Spirit," a "free spirit" the central one alone is in the original spoken of as God's,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
_Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me._ A CLEAN HEART I. The blessing asked for. It may refer to two distinct graces, conversion or entire sanctification. For when a...
_Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities._ GOD’S PARDONING GRACE This psalm is made up partly of confessions and acknowledgments of his great crimes, partly of petitions and suppli...
_Make me to hear of joy and gladness, that the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice._ THE DEPRESSION OF BELIEVERS This is the language of David at a period of trouble. His soul was depressed. He...
_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 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Kings 15:3; 1 Peter 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:17;...
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...