Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 51:12
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] (k) free spirit.
(k) Which may assure me that I am drawn out of the slavery of sin.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] (k) free spirit.
(k) Which may assure me that I am drawn out of the slavery of sin.
Verse Psalms 51:12. _RESTORE UNTO ME THE JOY OF THY SALVATION_] This is an awful prayer. And why? Because it shows he _once HAD the joy of_ _God's salvation; and had LOST it by sin_! _UPHOLD ME_ WIT...
RESTORE UNTO ME THE JOY OF THY SALVATION - literally, “Cause the joy of thy salvation to return.” This implies that he had formerly known what was the happiness of being a friend of God, and of having...
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
WITH THY FREE SPIRIT: i.e. with. spirit of willing and unforced obedience. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. Compare Exodus 35:5; Exodus 35:22....
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....
_Restore_&c. For sin has destroyed that assurance of God's help which is ever a ground of rejoicing (Psalms 9:14; Psalms 13:5; Psalms 20:5; Psalms 35:9). He
RESTORE UNTO ME THE JOY OF THY SALVATION— i.e. The pleasure I have formerly enjoyed, of having a special interest in thy favour, and of being assured that thou wilt continually protect and deliver me...
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...
51:12 me. (d-15) Or 'uphold me with a willing spirit.'...
_With thy_ FREE SPIRIT] RV 'with a free spirit,' a spirit of willing and unforced obedience....
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...
JOY OF THY SALVATION. — This again points to a sense of restoration of covenant privileges. THY FREE SPIRIT. — Rather, _with a willing spirit._ Or we may render, _a willing spirit shall support me. _...
_[Psalms 51:14]_ הָשִׁ֣יבָה לִּ֭י שְׂשֹׂ֣ון יִשְׁעֶ֑ךָ 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 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...
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...
12_Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation _He cannot dismiss his grief of mind until he have obtained peace with God. This he declares once and again, for David had no sympathy with those who can in...
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...
RESTORE UNTO ME THE JOY OF THY SALVATION,.... Not temporal, but spiritual and eternal; and designs either Christ himself, who is God's salvation, of his appointing and providing, in the view of whom,...
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit. Ver. 12. _Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation_] He had grieved that holy thing, that Spirit of God whereby he was...
_Cast me not away from thy presence_ That is, from thy favour and care. _Take not thy Holy Spirit from me_ Thy sanctifying Spirit, by which alone I can have acquaintance and fellowship with thee. _Res...
NEW OBEDIENCE AS A FRUIT OF FAITH...
Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, for that is the height of the believer's happiness, if the Lord turns to him in grace, AND UPHOLD ME WITH THY FREE SPIRIT, rather, the spirit of willingness w...
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...
THE JOY OF THY SALVATION; the comfortable sense of thy saving grace and help, promised and vouchsafed to me, both for my present and everlasting salvation. _Uphold me_; a weak and frail creature, neve...
Psalms 51:12 Restore H7725 (H8685) joy H8342 salvation H3468 uphold H5564 (H8799) generous H5081 Spirit H7307...
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 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 51:12 I. The joy of God's salvation is the joy of a sufficient and final answer to the self-upbraidings of a guilty soul. II. The joy of a portion which satisfies the heart's largest concepti...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
_Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation._ THE FALLEN CHRISTIAN PRAYING FOR SPIRITUAL JOY He asks that God would clear away his sorrows as well as his sins, make once again a happy man of him; so th...
_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 Peter 1:5; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 4:6; Galatians 4:7; I
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...
The joy — The comfortable sense of thy saving grace, promised and vouchsafed to me, both for my present and everlasting salvation. Free — Or, ingenuous, or liberal, or princely. Which he seems to oppo...