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Verse Psalms 51:15. _O LORD, OPEN THOU MY LIPS_] My heart is believing
unto righteousness; give me thy peace, that my tongue may make
confession unto salvation. He could not praise God for pardon till...
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O LORD, OPEN THOU MY LIPS - That is, by taking away my guilt; by
giving me evidence that my sins are forgiven; by taking this burden
from me, and filling my heart with the joy of pardon. The original...
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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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LORD *. Jehovah. App-4. One of the 134 alterations of the _Sopherim._
App-32....
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_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
prec...
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Resolutions of thanksgiving....
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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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_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...
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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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MY LIPS. — Comp. Psalms 71:15. The sense of forgiveness is like a
glad morning to song-birds....
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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 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...
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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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O Lord, (n) open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy
praise.
(n) By giving me opportunity to praise you, when you will forgive my
sins....
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Behold, now David's heart is awakened, how the foul sin of murder
haunted his guilty conscience!...
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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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O LORD, OPEN THOU MY LIPS,.... The Targum adds, "in the late"; which
were shut with a sense of sin, with shame of it, and sorrow for it;
and though they were in some measure opened in prayer to God fo...
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O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Ver. 15. _O Lord, open thou my lips_] Which now I find stopped and
sealed up, as it were, with the sin that doth so easily beset m...
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_Deliver me from blood-guiltiness_ Hebrew, מדמים, _middamim_,
from _bloods_, because he had been the cause of the death, not only of
Uriah, but of others of the Lord's people with him, 2 Samuel 11:17....
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NEW OBEDIENCE AS A FRUIT OF FAITH...
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O Lord, open Thou my lips, God Himself giving him the necessary skill
and ability to express his thanks in the proper manner, AND MY MOUTH
SHALL SHOW FORTH THY PRAISE, in an open and joyful song of pr...
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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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OPEN THOU MY LIPS; which are shut with shame, and grief, and horror.
Restore unto me the opportunity, and ability, and liberty which
formerly I had of speaking to thee with freedom, and boldness, and...
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Psalms 51:15 Lord H136 open H6605 (H8799) lips H8193 mouth H6310 forth
H5046 (H8686) praise H8416
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RECOGNISING THAT HIS ONLY HOPE LIES IN TOTAL AND CONTRITE SUBMISSION
DAVID MAKES A FINAL PLEA THAT GOD WILL DELIVER HIM FROM
BLOOD-GUILTINESS (PSALMS 51:14).
Blood-guiltiness is an idea prominent in t...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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_O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise._
THE LIPS DIVINELY OPENED
I. A humiliating fact implied. Sin seals the lips.
1. In our approaches to God, sin is a barrier to al...
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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 51:14 Terms in this section such as SING ALOUD,
DECLARE, and SACRIFICE point to activities of public worship. The
person who has used this psalm to confess si
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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 Samuel 2:9; Exodus 4:11; Ezekiel 16:63; Ezekiel 29:21; Ezekiel 3:27;
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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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My lips — Which are shut with shame and grief....