Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 51:18
Good pleasure — Thy free and rich mercy. Build — Perfect the walls and buildings of that city, and especially let the temple be built, notwithstanding my sins.
Good pleasure — Thy free and rich mercy. Build — Perfect the walls and buildings of that city, and especially let the temple be built, notwithstanding my sins.
Verse Psalms 51:18. _DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE UNTO ZION_] This and the following verse most evidently refer to the time of the _captivity_, when the _walls of Jerusalem were broken down_, and the...
DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE UNTO ZION - From himself - his deep sorrow, his conscious guilt, his earnest prayer for pardon and salvation - the psalmist turns to Zion, to the city of God, to the peopl...
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
ZION. See App-68. If verses: Psalms 51:18; Psalms 51:19 are. later addition, then they were probably the work of Hezekiah in his editing the Psalms as well as the Proverbs, when the Psalm was handed o...
Cp. Psalms 102:13 ff....
Prayer of Israel in exile for the restoration of Jerusalem and the renewal of the Temple worship. Reasons have already been given for thinking that these verses are not part of the original Psalm, bu...
DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE, &C.— It has been observed, that this and the next verse seem plainly to shew this Psalm to have been written during the captivity, and therefore the title to be wrong; an...
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....
This and the next v. form a prayer for the restoration of Jerusalem, written either during the exile or in the troublous times before Nehemiah's mission....
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...
DO GOOD. — The last two verses have occasioned much controversy. They do not fit in well with the theory of Davidic authorship, Theodoret long ago saying that they better suited the exiles in Babylon....
_[Psalms 51:20]_ הֵיטִ֣יבָה בִ֭ רְצֹונְךָ אֶת ־צִיֹּ֑ון...
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...
Do good in thy good pleasure unto (p) Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. (p) He prays for the whole Church, because through his sin it was in danger of God's judgment....
Observe how the interests of Zion still lay near David's heart. This was the most solemn moment David had ever seen, when one might have thought his own personal sorrows would have swallowed up the co...
18_Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure: build thou the walls of Jerusalem _(273) From prayer in his own behalf he now proceeds to offer up supplications for the collective Church of God, a duty which...
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...
DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE UNTO ZION,.... This verse, and Psalms 51:19, are thought, by a Spanish Rabbi mentioned by Aben Ezra, to have been added by one of the holy men that lived in the time of t...
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Ver. 18. _Do good in thy good pleasure unto Sion_] Having made his own peace with God, he now prayeth for the Church: and th...
_Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion_ Hebrew, ברצונךְ, _birtzonecha, for_, or _according to, thy grace, favour_, or _pleasure_ That is, thy free and rich mercy, and thy gracious purpose and promise...
NEW OBEDIENCE AS A FRUIT OF FAITH...
Do good in Thy good pleasure unto Zion, showing His favor to the congregation of believers named after the Temple-mount; BUILD THOU THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM, namely, the spiritual walls of His Church, o...
16-19 Those who are thoroughly convinced of their misery and danger by sin, would spare no cost to obtain the remission of it. But as they cannot make satisfaction for sin, so God cannot take any sat...
IN THY GOOD PLEASURE; or, _for_ or _according_ to (for the Hebrew prefix _beth_ is frequently used both those ways) _thy good grace_, or _favour_, or _pleasure_, i.e. thy free and rich mercy, and thy...
Psalms 51:18 good H3190 (H8685) pleasure H7522 Zion H6726 Build H1129 (H8799) walls H2346 Jerusalem H3389...
A PRAYER FOR THE PROSPERITY OF JERUSALEM (PSALMS 51:18). The Psalm as it now stands ends with this prayer. It was possibly not a part of the original Psalm, (which was David's written confession), but...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto Thee._ THE CHRISTIAN’S GREAT BUSINESS Sinners are all around us living in their sins. Some of these wandering ones are...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 51:1. This is probably the best known of the “Penitential Psalms” (Psalms 6:1;...
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...
2 Corinthians 11:28; 2 Corinthians 11:29; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; Daniel 9:25;...
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...