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Verse Psalms 51:9. _HIDE THY FACE FROM MY SINS_] The sentiment here
is nearly the same as that in Psalms 51:3: _His sin was ever before
his own face_; and he knew that the eye of God was constantly u...
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HIDE THY FACE FROM MY SINS - That is, Do not look on them; avert thy
face from them; do not regard them. Compare the notes at Psalms 13:1.
AND BLOT OUT ALL MINE INIQUITIES - Take them entirely away. L...
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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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_Hide thy face from my sins_ Cease to gaze upon them in displeasure.
Cp. Psalms 32:1; Psalms 90:8. This use of the expression is unusual.
Generally God is said to hide His face when He withdraws His f...
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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....
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HIDE THY FACE FROM MY SINS— The verb סתר _satar,_ properly
signifies _to veil,_ or hide with a veil. The meaning is, "Do not look
upon my sins with a severe eye, nor place them in the light of thy
cou...
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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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_HIDE THY FACE FROM MY SINS, AND BLOT OUT ALL MINE INIQUITIES._
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities - namely,
from thy book of remembrance, so as never to rise in judgment ag...
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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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HIDE THY FACE ... — _i.e.,_ thy angry look. (See Psalms 21:9.) More
usually the expression is used in the opposite sense of hiding the
_gracious_ look. As long as Jehovah kept the _offences_ before Hi...
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_[Psalms 51:11]_ הַסְתֵּ֣ר פָּ֭נֶיךָ מֵ
חֲטָאָ֑י וְֽ...
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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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_The man. Hebrew hageber, "the hero."_...
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Nothing but a complete pardon can satisfy David. Hide thy face from my
sins, heal my bones that are broken by reason of it! What should we
do, whither should we fly, were there not a total oblivion fo...
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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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HIDE THY FACE FROM MY SINS,.... In whose sight they were committed,
being now ashamed of them himself, and ashamed that any should see
them, and especially his God; and being filthy and nauseous, he k...
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Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Ver. 9. _Hide thy face from my sins_] We are not able to endure God's
presence, much less his justice for our sins; nor can there be any...
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_Hide thy face from my sins_ Do not look upon them with an eye of
indignation and wrath, but forgive and forget them. _Create in me a
clean heart_ Seeing I have not only defiled myself by these actual...
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Hide Thy face from my sins, turning it away, in order not to see it
any longer and thus be incited to new anger and punishment, AND BLOT
OUT ALL MINE INIQUITIES, removing from His presence not only 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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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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Do not look upon them with an eye of indignation and revenge, but
forget and forgive them. See PSALMS 51:1....
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Psalms 51:9 Hide H5641 (H8685) face H6440 sins H2399 out H4229 (H8798)
iniquities H5771
Hide -...
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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_Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities._
GOD’S PARDONING GRACE
This psalm is made up partly of confessions and acknowledgments of his
great crimes, partly of petitions and suppli...
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_Make me to hear of joy and gladness, that the bones which Thou hast
broken may rejoice._
THE DEPRESSION OF BELIEVERS
This is the language of David at a period of trouble. His soul was
depressed. He...
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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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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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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 51:9 Usually when God is said to HIDE his FACE
FROM someone, it means that he will no longer look upon that person
with favor (see...
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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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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...