only. alone. This is primary, and contains the secondary.
evil. Hebrew. ra'a'.
That, &c. Quoted in Romans 3:4.
when Thou speakest: i.e. in Thy word. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "in Thy words" (plural) Compare Romans 3:4.
clear. pure; such moral purity as belongs not to man, only to God (Job 15:14; Job 25:4.Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs 20:9). Hebrew. zakak.
Verse Psalms 51:4. _AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY, HAVE I SINNED_] This verse is supposed to show the impropriety of affixing the above _title_ to this Psalm. It could not have been composed on account of...
AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY, HAVE I SINNED - That is, the sin, considered as an offence against God, now appeared to him so enormous and so aggravated, that, for the moment, he lost sight of it considered...
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 for forgiveness and cleansing: its ground, God's grace; its condition, man's repentance....
David's confession to Nathan was couched in the simple words (two only in the Heb.), "I have sinned against Jehovah." The additional words "thee only" have been taken as a proof that the Psalm cannot...
DISCOURSE: 586 SIN AN OFFENCE AGAINST GOD Psalms 51:4. _Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when...
AGAINST THEE, &C.— Injuries done to private persons are offences against government, and, as to the right of punishment, offences only against government. And therefore, though David had injured Baths...
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....
_AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY, HAVE I SINNED, AND DONE THIS EVIL IN THY SIGHT: THAT THOU MIGHTEST BE JUSTIFIED WHEN THOU SPEAKEST, AND BE CLEAR WHEN THOU JUDGEST._ AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY, HAVE I SINNED, A...
AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY] David had sinned against Uriah and Bathsheba as well as against God: but as all obligations to men have their foundation in God's law, so all sin against them is included and...
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...
AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY... — This can refer to nothing but a breach of the covenant-relation by the nation at large. An individual would have felt his guilt against the nation or other individuals, as...
_[Psalms 51:6]_ לְךָ֤ לְ בַדְּךָ֨ ׀ חָטָאתִי֮ וְ...
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...
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou (e) speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest. (e) When you give sentence against...
This is a striking expression: David looks upon the sin as directly levelled against God. He had injured Uriah, injured Bathsheba, injured, in short, everyone that heard the story, in the example he h...
4._Against thee, thee only, have I sinned _(260) It is the opinion of some that he here adverts to the circumstance of his sin, although it was committed against man, being concealed from every eye bu...
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...
AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY, HAVE I SINNED,.... All sin, though committed against a fellow creature, being a transgression of the law, is against the lawgiver; and, indeed, begins at the neglect or contem...
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest. Ver. 4. _Against thee, thee only, have...
_Against thee, thee only, have I sinned_ Which is not to be understood absolutely, because he had sinned against Bath-sheba and Uriah, and many others; but comparatively. So the sense is, Though I hav...
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...
Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in Thy sight, for every transgression of the Law, whether it be directed against the First or against the Second Table, is an infraction of th...
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...
AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY; which is not to be understood simply and absolutely, because he had unquestionably sinned against Bathsheba and Uriah and many others, who were either injured by it, or scanda...
Psalms 51:4 sinned H2398 (H8804) done H6213 (H8804) evil H7451 just H6663 (H8799) speak H1696 ...
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 51:4 Modern blasphemy delights to blacken "the man after God's own heart." His _was_a terrible fall, terrible as well as piteous. He, so blameless in youth could he, when life had begun to set,...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
_Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight: that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest._ UNIMPEACHABLE JUSTICE Our subject will b...
_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 51:4 AGAINST YOU, YOU ONLY, HAVE I SINNED. Of course, in doing wrong he has hurt others, but God is the ultimate judge of all sin. ⇐
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...
2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Samuel 12:10; 2 Samuel 12:13;...
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...
Thee only — Which is not to be, understood absolutely, because he had sinned against Bathsheba and Uriah, and many others; but comparatively. So the sense is, though I have sinned against my own consc...