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Verse Psalms 51:7. _PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP_] תחטאני
_techatteeni_, "thou shalt make a sin-offering for me;" probably
alluding to the cleansing of the leper: Leviticus 14:1, c. The priest
took two clean...
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PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN - On the word hyssop, see
the notes at John 19:29; notes at Hebrews 9:19. The plant or herb was
much used by the Hebrews in their sacred purifications and
sp...
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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 ...
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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
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PURGE ME. Thou wilt sin-cleanse me, or un-sin me: i.e. expiate by the
blood of. sin offering.
HYSSOP. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the atoning
blood sprinkled by it. Compare Numb...
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He has inherited a sinful nature; and yet, so he is confident, God can
and will make it conform to His desire. The emphatic -Behold!" marks
the beginning of a new stanza....
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The verbs in these verses may be regarded as optatives (_mayest thou
purge me_), but it is preferable to render them as futures: Thou shalt
purge me … thou shalt wash me … thou shalt make me hear. The...
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DISCOURSE: 589
THE MEANS OF DELIVERANCE FROM SPIRITUAL LEPROSY
Psalms 51:7. _Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and
I shall be whiter than snow._
EVERY part of God’s word is profita...
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PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP— תחטאני _techatteeni:_ properly, _expiate
my sin,_ with hyssop. The Psalmist alludes to the purification from
the leprosy; Leviticus 14:52 or from the touch of a dead body; Number...
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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....
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_PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN: WASH ME, AND I SHALL BE
WHITER THAN SNOW._
Prayer for forgiveness and for the Spirit.
PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN. A man ceremonially
uncl...
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51:7 Purge (b-1) Strictly, 'purge from sin.'...
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HYSSOP] employed in the OT. ceremonies of purification, a bunch of the
herb being used to sprinkle blood (Leviticus 14:6) or water (Numbers
19:18) on the unclean. SNOW] cp. Isaiah 1:18....
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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....
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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...
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HYSSOP. — The mention of this connects this verse with the priestly
ordinances concerning leprosy and contact with a dead body (Leviticus
14; Numbers 19); but generally it is a repetition of the forme...
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_[Psalms 51:9]_ תְּחַטְּאֵ֣נִי בְ אֵזֹ֣וב וְ
אֶטְהָ֑ר...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Thy, is not found in Hebrew. Doeg would not dare to enter the
tabernacle, after he had slain the priests. (Calmet) --- Houbigant
properly supplies thy. (Berthier) --- Living. The Jews inform us, that...
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He here goes back to the source of all sin, in original depravity!
What hyssop shall purge this away, what washing of water will make
this clean? Oh! how blessed is it do behold Christ, whose blood al...
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7._Thou shalt purge me with hyssop _He still follows out the same
strain of supplication; and the repetition of his requests for pardon
proves how earnestly he desired it. He speaks of _hyssop _(266)...
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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...
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PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP,.... Or "thou shalt purge me with hyssop" f; or
"expiate me"; which was used in sprinkling the blood of the paschal
lamb on the door posts of the Israelites in Egypt, that the des...
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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be
whiter than snow.
Ver. 7. _Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean_] Sprinkle me
with the blood of Christ by the hyssop bunch of...
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_Purge me with hyssop_ Or, _as with hyssop;_ the note of similitude
being frequently understood. As lepers, and other unclean persons, are
by thy appointment purified by the use of hyssop and other th...
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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...
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Purge me with hyssop, a species of marjoram used in ceremonies of
purification, Leviticus 14:4, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN, declared justified
in the eyes of God; WASH ME, AND I SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW, l...
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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...
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Psalms 51:7 Purge H2398 (H8762) hyssop H231 clean H2891 (H8799) Wash
H3526 (H8762) whiter H3835 ...
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HIS PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS AND FOR THE REMOVAL OF HIS SINS (PSALMS
51:7).
David now turns to the question of how his sins can be removed from
him. He recognises that outward ritual would be irrelevant...
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HYSSOP
Hyssop was the little shrub (1 Kings 4:33) with which the blood and
water of purification were applied. (Leviticus 14:1); (Numbers 19:1).
Cleansing in Scripture is twofold:
(1) Of a sinner fr...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean._
PRAYER AN INDEX OF THE HEART
Men’s prayers are this. And they show, also, how far men agree with
one another, for if we sincerely unite in the prayers of...
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_Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive
me._
ORIGINAL DEPRAVITY
Men may come upon this doctrine one of two different ways.
1. As a dogma in theology. The first thing tha...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 51:1. This is probably the best known of
the “Penitential Psalms” (Psalms 6:1;...
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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),
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 1:7; Ephesians 5:26; Ephesians 5:27; Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 9:14
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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...
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Hyssop — As lepers, are by thy appointment purified by the use of
hyssop and other things, so do thou cleanse me a leprous and polluted
creature, by thy grace, and by that blood of Christ, which is
si...