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Verse Psalms 51:8. _MAKE ME TO HEAR JOY_] Let me have a full testimony
of my reconciliation to thee; that the soul, which is so deeply
distressed by a sense of thy displeasure, may be healed by a sens...
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MAKE ME TO HEAR JOY AND GLADNESS - That is, the voice of forgiveness,
causing joy and rejoicing. What he wished to hear was the kind voice
of God in pronouncing his pardon; not the voice of anger and...
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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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MAKE ME. Thou wilt make me....
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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: 590
THE OPERATIONS OF SIN AND OF GRACE
Psalms 51:8. _Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which
thou hast broken may rejoice._
NEXT to the obtaining of pardon, a penitent will...
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MAKE ME TO HEAR JOY AND GLADNESS— The displeasure which God
expressed against the sins he had been guilty of, and the deep sense
he had of the aggravated nature of them, filled him with such pains
and...
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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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_MAKE ME TO HEAR JOY AND GLADNESS; THAT THE BONES WHICH THOU HAST
BROKEN MAY REJOICE._
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast
broken may rejoice - namely, by my receiving fr...
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BONES _which_ THOU HAST BROKEN] see on Isaiah 42:10....
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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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THE BONES WHICH THOU HAST BROKEN... — Through his whole being the
psalmist has felt the crushing weight of sin; to its _very fibres,_ as
we say, his frame has suffered....
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_[Psalms 51:10]_ תַּ֭שְׁמִיעֵנִי שָׂשֹׂ֣ון
וְ שִׂמְחָ֑ה תָּ֝גֵ֗לְנָה
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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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Make me to hear (g) joy and gladness; [that] the (h) bones [which]
thou hast broken may rejoice.
(g) He means God's comfortable mercies toward repentant sinners.
(h) By the bones he understands all...
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_Laugh, at the last day, when they will have nothing to fear, nor the
wicked to hope. In this life, the just are full of compassion; but
they cannot but approve of God's judgments. (Calmet)_...
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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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MAKE ME TO HEAR JOY AND GLADNESS,.... Which he had not heard for some
time; sin had sadly broke in upon and interrupted his spiritual peace
and joy; for though the love and favour of God cannot be los...
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_Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast
broken may rejoice._
Ver. 8. _Make me to hear joy and gladness_] God will speak peace unto
his people, he createth the fruit of t...
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_Make me to hear joy and gladness_ Send me glad tidings of thy
reconciliation to me; and by thy Spirit seal the pardon of my sins on
my conscience, which will fill me with joy. _That the bones which t...
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Make me to hear joy and gladness, that is David's confident prayer now
that his sins are forgiven, THAT THE BONES WHICH THOU HAST BROKEN MAY
REJOICE, his entire body feeling the relief following the r...
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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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Send me glad tidings of thy reconciliation to me, and by thy Spirit
seal the pardon of my sins to my conscience, which will fill me with
joy, that mine heart, which hath been sorely wounded and terrif...
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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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Psalms 51:8
I. (1) The sin of David was (_a_) a sin against light, and (_b_) a sin
without excuse. He fell with frightful injury to himself, and the
effect of Samuel's unction on his head when he made...
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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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_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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_For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me._
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRANSGRESSION
I. The proposition. “I acknowledge my transgressions,” etc.
1. Simply and absolutely.
(1) There...
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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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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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Acts 16:29; Acts 2:37; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 6:2; Isaiah 57:15;...
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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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Joy — By thy spirit, seal the pardon of my sins on my conscience,
which will fill me with joy. Rejoice — That my heart which hath been
sorely wounded may be comforted....