Hyssop. — The mention of this connects this verse with the priestly ordinances concerning leprosy and contact with a dead body (Leviticus 14; Numbers 19); but generally it is a repetition of the former prayer to have the breach made in the covenant - relationship healed. (Comp. Isaiah 1:18.)
Verse Psalms 51:7. _PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP_] תחטאני _techatteeni_, "thou shalt make a sin-offering for me;" probably alluding to the cleansing of the leper: Leviticus 14:1, c. The priest took two clean...
PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN - On the word hyssop, see the notes at John 19:29; notes at Hebrews 9:19. The plant or herb was much used by the Hebrews in their sacred purifications and sp...
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
PURGE ME. Thou wilt sin-cleanse me, or un-sin me: i.e. expiate by the blood of. sin offering. HYSSOP. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the atoning blood sprinkled by it. Compare Numb...
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....
The verbs in these verses may be regarded as optatives (_mayest thou purge me_), but it is preferable to render them as futures: Thou shalt purge me … thou shalt wash me … thou shalt make me hear. The...
DISCOURSE: 589 THE MEANS OF DELIVERANCE FROM SPIRITUAL LEPROSY Psalms 51:7. _Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow._ EVERY part of God’s word is profita...
PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP— תחטאני _techatteeni:_ properly, _expiate my sin,_ with hyssop. The Psalmist alludes to the purification from the leprosy; Leviticus 14:52 or from the touch of a dead body; Number...
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....
_PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN: WASH ME, AND I SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW._ Prayer for forgiveness and for the Spirit. PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN. A man ceremonially uncl...
51:7 Purge (b-1) Strictly, 'purge from sin.'...
HYSSOP] employed in the OT. ceremonies of purification, a bunch of the herb being used to sprinkle blood (Leviticus 14:6) or water (Numbers 19:18) on the unclean. SNOW] cp. Isaiah 1:18....
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...
_[Psalms 51:9]_ תְּחַטְּאֵ֣נִי בְ אֵזֹ֣וב וְ אֶטְהָ֑ר...
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...
_Thy, is not found in Hebrew. Doeg would not dare to enter the tabernacle, after he had slain the priests. (Calmet) --- Houbigant properly supplies thy. (Berthier) --- Living. The Jews inform us, that...
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...
7._Thou shalt purge me with hyssop _He still follows out the same strain of supplication; and the repetition of his requests for pardon proves how earnestly he desired it. He speaks of _hyssop _(266)...
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...
PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP,.... Or "thou shalt purge me with hyssop" f; or "expiate me"; which was used in sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb on the door posts of the Israelites in Egypt, that the des...
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Ver. 7. _Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean_] Sprinkle me with the blood of Christ by the hyssop bunch of...
_Purge me with hyssop_ Or, _as with hyssop;_ the note of similitude being frequently understood. As lepers, and other unclean persons, are by thy appointment purified by the use of hyssop and other th...
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...
Purge me with hyssop, a species of marjoram used in ceremonies of purification, Leviticus 14:4, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN, declared justified in the eyes of God; WASH ME, AND I SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW, l...
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...
WITH HYSSOP; or, as _with hyssop_; the note of similitude being frequently understood. As lepers and other unclean persons are by thy appointment purified by the use of hyssop and other things, LEVITI...
Psalms 51:7 Purge H2398 (H8762) hyssop H231 clean H2891 (H8799) Wash H3526 (H8762) whiter H3835 ...
HIS PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS AND FOR THE REMOVAL OF HIS SINS (PSALMS 51:7). David now turns to the question of how his sins can be removed from him. He recognises that outward ritual would be irrelevant...
HYSSOP Hyssop was the little shrub (1 Kings 4:33) with which the blood and water of purification were applied. (Leviticus 14:1); (Numbers 19:1). Cleansing in Scripture is twofold: (1) Of a sinner fr...
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...
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...
_Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean._ PRAYER AN INDEX OF THE HEART Men’s prayers are this. And they show, also, how far men agree with one another, for if we sincerely unite in the prayers of...
_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 John 1:7; Ephesians 5:26; Ephesians 5:27; Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 9:14
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...
Hyssop — As lepers, are by thy appointment purified by the use of hyssop and other things, so do thou cleanse me a leprous and polluted creature, by thy grace, and by that blood of Christ, which is si...