What does Psalms 51:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Deliver me from bloodguiltiness,c O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness."
Verse Psalms 51:14. _DELIVER ME FROM BLOOD-GUILTINESS_] This is one of the expressions that gives most colour to the propriety of the title affixed to this Psalm. Here he may have in view the _death o...
DELIVER ME FROM BLOOD-GUILTINESS, O GOD - Margin, as in Hebrew, “bloods.” So it is rendered by the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate. Luther renders it “blood-guilt.” DeWette, “from blood.” Compare Isa...
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...
DELIVER. Rescue. BLOODGUILTINESS. bloods, plural of majesty; put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), for the great murder of Uriah (2 Samuel 11:14). Compare Genesis 4:10....
Resolutions of thanksgiving....
DISCOURSE: 592 THE PENITENT ENCOURAGED Psalms 51:14. _Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation! and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness._ THIS psalm is full of en...
DELIVER ME FROM BLOOD-GUILTINESS— This is the proper sense of the expression. The Hebrew דמים _damim,_ is _bloods,_ in the plural; which generally signifies _murder._ See 2 Samuel 16:7.; Psalms 59:2.;...
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...
BLOODGUILTINESS... — Literally, as in the margin, _bloods._ So in LXX. and in Vulg., but thus hardly making it clear whether the word implies the guilt of blood already shed or anticipated violence. T...
_[Psalms 51:16]_ הַצִּ֘ילֵ֤נִי מִ דָּמִ֨ים ׀ אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים אֱלֹהֵ֥י תְּשׁוּעָתִ֑י תְּרַנֵּ֥ן לְשֹׁונִ֗י צִדְקָתֶֽךָ׃...
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 tain...
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...
Deliver me from (m) bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. (m) From the murder of Uriah and the others who were slain with him, (2 Sa...
Behold, now David's heart is awakened, how the foul sin of murder haunted his guilty conscience!...
14_Deliver me from bloods _His recurring so often to petitions for pardon, proves how far David was from flattering himself with unfounded hopes, and what a severe struggle he sustained with inward te...
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...
DELIVER ME FROM BLOOD GUILTINESS,.... Or "from bloods" q; meaning not the corruption of nature; see Ezekiel 16:6; though to be rid of that, and to be free from the guilt and condemnation of it, is ver...
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. Ver. 14. _Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God_] Heb. from bloods; in every...
_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...
BLOODGUILTINESS: _ Heb._ bloods...
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...
FROM BLOOD-GUILTINESS, Heb. _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. THY RIGHTEOUSNESS; either, 1. Th...
Psalms 51:14 Deliver H5337 (H8685) bloodshed H1818 God H430 God H430 salvation H8668 tongue H3956 aloud H7442 (H8762) righteousness H6666 Deliver - Psalms 26:9, Psalms 55:23; Genesis 9:6, Genesi
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...
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...
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 11:15; 2 Samuel 12:9; 2 Samuel 21:1; 2 Samuel 3:28; Acts 18:6; Acts 20:26; Daniel 9:16; Daniel 9:7; Ezekiel 33:8; Ezra 9:13;...
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...
Thy righteousness — Thy clemency and goodness....