Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 51:11
From thy presence, i.e. from thy favour, and care, and gracious communion with thee. Thy Holy Spirit; thy sanctifying Spirit, by which alone I can have acquaintance and fellowship with thee.
From thy presence, i.e. from thy favour, and care, and gracious communion with thee. Thy Holy Spirit; thy sanctifying Spirit, by which alone I can have acquaintance and fellowship with thee.
Verse Psalms 51:11. _CAST ME NOT AWAY FROM THY PRESENCE_] Banish me not from thy house and ordinances. _TAKE NOT THY HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME._] I know I have sufficiently grieved it to justify its depar...
CAST ME NOT AWAY FROM THY PRESENCE - That is, Do not reject me, or cast me off entirely; do not abandon me; do not leave me in my sin and sorrow. The language is derived from the idea that true happin...
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
TAKE NOT. Not. proper prayer for those now "in Christ": for, see John 14:16. HOLY SPIRIT. See the only other O.T. occurrences of the expression (Isaiah 63:10; Isaiah 63:11). Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
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....
The upright "behold God's face" (Psalms 11:7): He admits them to His presence for ever (Psalms 41:12). The spirit of Jehovah came upon David, as it departed from Saul (1 Samuel 16:13-14). Did David fe...
CAST ME NOT AWAY FROM THY PRESENCE— _From before thy face._ Heb. The _coming to God's presence,_ was the approaching the tabernacle of the ark, and its courts, where the sacrifices were offered, and t...
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...
THY HOLY SPIRIT] The only other mention of this in the OT. is in Isaiah 63:10; Isaiah 63:11....
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...
CAST ME NOT AWAY. — This phrase is used of the formal rejection of Israel by the God of the covenant (2 Kings 13:23; 2 Kings 17:20; 2 Kings 24:20;...
_[Psalms 51:13]_ אַל ־תַּשְׁלִיכֵ֥נִי מִ לְּ פָנֶ֑יךָ...
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...
_It punished the wicked, and asserted thy just providence. (Haydock) --- Good. Thy saints find the greatest comfort in thee. (Calmet)_...
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...
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...
CAST ME NOT AWAY FROM THY PRESENCE,.... As abominable; as a vessel in which he had no pleasure; with indignation and wrath; as one that is angry with another, cannot bear him in his sight, but bids hi...
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Ver. 11. _Cast me not away from thy presence_] Deprive me not of communion with thee and comfort from thee; for that is a pie...
_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...
Cast me not away from Thy presence, for he had once felt the excruciating agony of being excluded from the mercy of God and feared a repetition of the experience, AND TAKE NOT THY HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME,...
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...
Psalms 51:11 away H7993 (H8686) presence H6440 take H3947 (H8799) Holy H6944 Spirit H7307 Cast -...
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...
TAKE NOT No believer of this dispensation, aware of the promise of His abiding (John 14:16) should pray, "Take not Thy Holy Spirit from me." (Ephesians 4:30) but while Christian position is not found...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me._ A MOST NEEDFUL PRAYER CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT This psalm is, beyond all others, a photograph of penitent David. You may...
_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),
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 51:11 TAKE NOT YOUR HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME. Some scholars argue that here David asks God not to remove the divine anointing for kingship (compare note on 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 Samuel 10:10; 1 Samuel 16:14; 2 Kings 13:23; 2 Kings 17:18;...
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...