What does Psalms 51:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions."
PSALM LI _The psalmist, with a deeply penitent heart, prays for remission_ _of sins_, 1-4; _which he confesses, and deeply deplores_, 5-14; _states his willingness to offer sacrifice, but is convi...
HAVE MERCY OPON ME, O GOD - This is the utterance of a full heart; a heart crushed and broken by the consciousness of sin. The psalmist had been made to see his great guilt; and his first act is to cr...
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 (Psalms 51:14) 4. Prayer...
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...
TITLE.. PSALM. Hebrew. _mizmor._ See App-65. WHEN NATHAN, &C. See 2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 12:1. David's utterance when he lay all night upon the earth as. _penitent_ (2 Samuel 12:16). Compare his utt...
_Have mercy upon me_ Or, Be gracious unto me, as the word is rendered in 2 Samuel 12:22. It suggests the free bestowal of favour rather than the exercise of forgiving clemency, and is connected with t...
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...
_David prayeth for remission of sins, whereof he maketh a deep confession: he prayeth for sanctification. God delighteth not in sacrifice, but in sincerity: David prayeth for the church._ To the chie...
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....
_HAVE MERCY UPON ME, O GOD, ACCORDING TO THY LOVINGKINDNESS: ACCORDING UNTO THE MULTITUDE OF THY TENDER MERCIES BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSIONS._ Psalms 32:1 was written AFTER this Psalms 51:1, before Dav...
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...
BLOT OUT. — The figure is most probably, as in Exodus 32:32, taken from the custom of erasing a written record (comp. Numbers 5:23; Psalms 69:28). So LXX. and Vulg. Isaiah, however (Isaiah 44:22) uses...
לַ † מְנַצֵּ֗חַ מִזְמֹ֥ור לְ דָוִֽד׃ _[Psalms 51:2]_ בְּֽ בֹוא ־אֵ֭לָיו נָתָ֣ן הַ נָּבִ֑יא כַּֽ...
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 pen...
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...
"To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet (a) came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba." Have mercy upon me, O God, (b) according to thy lovingkindness: according unto...
CONTENTS Here is a penitential Psalm, penned by David, as the title expresses it, upon a remarkable occasion; in which we trace the sorrowful workings of his soul in a devout humiliation before God....
1._Have mercy upon me. _David begins, as I have already remarked, by praying for pardon; and his sin having been of an aggravated description, he prays with unwonted earnestness. He does not satisfy h...
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...
HAVE MERCY UPON ME, O GOD,.... David, under a sense of sin, does not run away from God, but applies unto him, and casts himself at his feet, and upon his mercy; which shows the view he had of his mise...
Psalms 51:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. » Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according...
_Have mercy upon me, O God_ O thou, who art the supreme Lawgiver, Governor, and Judge of the world, whom I have most highly offended many ways, and, therefore, may most justly be condemned to suffer t...
Have mercy upon me, O God, a confession of utter unworthiness and a cry of faith clinging to God as the only Hope of salvation, ACCORDING TO THY LOVING-KINDNESS, for He forgives sins only for His own...
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...
PSALM 51 _To the chief musician_; to be sung by him and other sacred musicians publicly in the temple through all ages; that his repentance might be as manifest and public as his crime and scandal was...
Psalms 51:1 Musician H5329 (H8764) Psalm H4210 David H1732 Nathan H5416 prophet H5030 went H935 (H8800) in H935 (H8804) Bathsheba H1339 mercy H2603 (H8798) God H430 lovingkindness H2617 multitude H723...
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 recognitio...
HAVE This Psalm must ever be, in its successive steps, the mould of the experience of a sinning saint who comes back to full communion and service. The steps are: (1) sin thoroughly judged before Go...
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...
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...
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 pen...
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...
_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 fro...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 51:1. This is probably the best known of the “Penitential Psalms” (Psalms 6:1; Psalms 25:1; Psalms 32:1; Psalms 38:1; Psalms 51:1; Psalms 130:1;...
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, af...
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 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 12:1; Acts 3:19; Colossians 2:14; Daniel 9:18; Daniel 9:9; Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 2:4; Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7;...
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...