Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 51:15
O Lord, (n) open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
(n) By giving me opportunity to praise you, when you will forgive my sins.
O Lord, (n) open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
(n) By giving me opportunity to praise you, when you will forgive my sins.
Verse Psalms 51:15. _O LORD, OPEN THOU MY LIPS_] My heart is believing unto righteousness; give me thy peace, that my tongue may make confession unto salvation. He could not praise God for pardon till...
O LORD, OPEN THOU MY LIPS - That is, by taking away my guilt; by giving me evidence that my sins are forgiven; by taking this burden from me, and filling my heart with the joy of pardon. The original...
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
LORD *. Jehovah. App-4. One of the 134 alterations of the _Sopherim._ App-32....
Resolutions of thanksgiving....
_open thou_ Lit. as P.B. V., _thou shalt open_, i.e. when thou openest. Not the occasion for praise only, but the power to praise aright is the gift of God. Cp. Psalms 40:3. In this verse and the prec...
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...
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...
MY LIPS. — Comp. Psalms 71:15. The sense of forgiveness is like a glad morning to song-birds....
_[Psalms 51:17]_ אֲ֭דֹנָי שְׂפָתַ֣י תִּפְתָּ֑ח וּ֝ פִ֗י...
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...
Behold, now David's heart is awakened, how the foul sin of murder haunted his guilty conscience!...
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...
O LORD, OPEN THOU MY LIPS,.... The Targum adds, "in the late"; which were shut with a sense of sin, with shame of it, and sorrow for it; and though they were in some measure opened in prayer to God fo...
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. Ver. 15. _O Lord, open thou my lips_] Which now I find stopped and sealed up, as it were, with the sin that doth so easily beset m...
_Deliver me from blood-guiltiness_ Hebrew, מדמים, _middamim_, from _bloods_, because he had been the cause of the death, not only of Uriah, but of others of the Lord's people with him, 2 Samuel 11:17....
NEW OBEDIENCE AS A FRUIT OF FAITH...
O Lord, open Thou my lips, God Himself giving him the necessary skill and ability to express his thanks in the proper manner, AND MY MOUTH SHALL SHOW FORTH THY PRAISE, in an open and joyful song of pr...
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...
OPEN THOU MY LIPS; which are shut with shame, and grief, and horror. Restore unto me the opportunity, and ability, and liberty which formerly I had of speaking to thee with freedom, and boldness, and...
Psalms 51:15 Lord H136 open H6605 (H8799) lips H8193 mouth H6310 forth H5046 (H8686) praise H8416 O
RECOGNISING THAT HIS ONLY HOPE LIES IN TOTAL AND CONTRITE SUBMISSION DAVID MAKES A FINAL PLEA THAT GOD WILL DELIVER HIM FROM BLOOD-GUILTINESS (PSALMS 51:14). Blood-guiltiness is an idea prominent in t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise._ THE LIPS DIVINELY OPENED I. A humiliating fact implied. Sin seals the lips. 1. In our approaches to God, sin is a barrier to al...
_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 51:14 Terms in this section such as SING ALOUD, DECLARE, and SACRIFICE point to activities of public worship. The person who has used this psalm to confess si
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 Samuel 2:9; Exodus 4:11; Ezekiel 16:63; Ezekiel 29:21; Ezekiel 3:27;
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...
My lips — Which are shut with shame and grief....