Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 51:2
Wash me (c) throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
(c) My sins strike so fast in me, that I have need of some singular kind of washing.
Wash me (c) throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
(c) My sins strike so fast in me, that I have need of some singular kind of washing.
Verse Psalms 51:2. _WASH ME THROUGHLY_] הרבה כבסני _harbeh cabbeseni_, "Wash me again and again, - cause my washings to be multiplied." My stain is deep; ordinary purgation will not be sufficient....
WASH ME THROUGHLY FROM MINE INIQUITY - literally, “Multiply to wash me.” The word rendered “throughly” is a verb, either in the infinitive or imperative mood, and suggests the idea of “multiplying” or...
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
WASH: as. garment, Hebrew. _kabas._ Heb form. multiply to wash. wash thoroughly. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. CLEANSE: i.e. pronounce ceremonially clean. SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44,...
Prayer for forgiveness and cleansing: its ground, God's grace; its condition, man's repentance....
DISCOURSE: 585 TRUE PENITENCE DESCRIBED 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...
WASH ME THOROUGHLY, &C.— The original כבסני ברבה _hereb kabseini_ is, _multiply,_ or, _in multiplying, wash me from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin;_ for the word _multiply_ refers to both v...
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....
_WASH ME THROUGHLY FROM MINE INIQUITY, AND CLEANSE ME FROM MY SIN._ Wash me throughly from mine iniquity - (cf. Psalms 51:7.) The Hebrew verb for "wash" is usually employed as to clothes х_ KAABAC_ ...
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...
WASH ME THOROUGHLY. — Literally, _Wash me much,_ whether we follow the Hebrew text or the Hebrew margin. The two clauses of the verse are not merely antithetic. The terms _wash_ and _cleanse_ seem to...
_[Psalms 51:4]_ _הֶ֭רֶב_† כַּבְּסֵ֣נִי מֵ עֲוֹנִ֑י וּֽ...
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...
Achimelech. Sixtus V, Septuagint, &c., read Abimelech. But the former is the true name. See 1 Kings xxii. 9, 20. (Calmet) --- The word understanding implies, that we ought to reflect on the misery of...
How beautiful these expressions are, if offered wish reference to Christ's blood as the fountain there opened for sin and for uncleanness. And observe in what true sorrow for sin consists; an unceasin...
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...
WASH ME THOROUGHLY FROM MINE INIQUITY,.... Which supposes defilement by sin, and that very great, and such as none can remove but the Lord himself; who, when he takes it in hand, does it effectually a...
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Ver. 2. _Wash me throughly from mine iniquity_] Heb. Multiply, wash me; so Isaiah 55:7. God is said to multiply pardon as much as we...
_Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity_, &c. “I have made myself exceeding loathsome by my repeated and heinous acts of wickedness, which, like a stain that hath long stuck to a garment, is not easily...
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, which is like filth polluting the heart and conscience, AND CLEANSE ME FROM MY SIN, the term referring to the declaration of the priest by which one who was Levit...
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...
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...
WASH ME THROUGHLY, Heb. _multiply to wash me_; by which phrase he implies the greatness of his guilt, and the insufficiency of all legal washings, and the absolute necessity of some other and better t...
Psalms 51:2 Wash H3526 (H8761) thoroughly H7235 (H8685) iniquity H5771 cleanse H2891 (H8761) sin H2403...
AN APPEAL FOR FORGIVENESS AND CLEANSING (PSALMS 51:1). The Psalm commences with an appeal to God for forgiveness and cleansing. In these verses David throws himself on the mercy of God, in recognition...
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 51:1 I. Looking at this triad of petitions, they teach us, first, how David thought of his sin. (1) Observe the reiteration of the same earnest cry in all these clauses. It is not a mere piece...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
_Wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin._ DAVID’S CRY FOR PARDON I. How David thought of his sin. The repetition of these petitions show his earnestness of soul. In like man...
_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;...
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 6:11; 1 John 1:7; Ezekiel 36:25; Hebrews 10:21;...
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...