Psalms 51:15

open thou Lit. as P.B. V., thou shalt open, i.e. when thou openest. Not the occasion for praise only, but the power to praise aright is the gift of God. Cp. Psalms 40:3. In this verse and the preceding one there may be an allusion to the public worship of God. Cp. Psalms 26:6-7. He may be tacitly comparing himself to the leper who has been pronounced clean, and restored to that fellowship with the congregation from which he had been excluded.