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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 51:19

Be pleased with] RV 'delight in.' Burnt offering and whole burnt offering] two expressions for the same sacrifice, the one emphasising its being burnt, the other the completeness with which it was consumed. The conception of the essence of religion here is evidently very different from that of Psalms 51:16, which almost look like a criticism of—some even maintain, a protest against—animal sacrifice. In any case they assert that the sacrifice of the broken heart is that which God loves best.

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See also Psalms 51:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN SHALT THOU BE PLEASED WITH THE SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - “Then,” that is, when God should have thus showed favor to Zion; when he should have poured out his blessing on Jerusalem; when religi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Then shalt thou be pleased with_ R.V., Then shalt thou delight in, as in Psalms 51:16. _the sacrifices of righteousness_ Those offered in a right spirit. Cp. Psalms 4:5; Deuteronomy 33:19. with burn...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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....

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    51:19 have (e-4) Or 'take delight in.' see vers. 6,16....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 51:21]_ אָ֤ז תַּחְפֹּ֣ץ זִבְחֵי ־צֶ֭דֶק עֹולָ֣ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of (q) righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. (q) That is, just and lawful, appli...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! let you and I look at this man after God's own heart, and tremble in the recollection of what man is in his highest attainments, if left for one moment void of grace. Oh! what an i...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    19_Then shalt thou accept sacrifices of righteousness _In these words there is an apparent, but only an apparent, inconsistency with others which he had used in the preceding context. He had declared...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SHALL THOU BE PLEASED WITH THE SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Which must be different from the legal ones he desired not, and did not delight in, Psalms 51:16; but design sacrifices under the G...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. Ver. 19. _Then shalt thou be pleased wi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then_ When thou hast granted my humble requests, expressed in the former verses; when thou hast renewed, and pardoned, and comforted me, and restored thy favour unto thy people and this city; _shalt...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then shalt Thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering, David being ready, in the consciousness of the righteousness imputed to him and in the ea...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    NEW OBEDIENCE AS A FRUIT OF FAITH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEN; when thou hast granted my humble requests expressed in the former verses, when thou hast renewed, and pardoned, and comforted me, and restored thy favour unto thy people and this city. THE SACRI...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 51:19 pleased H2654 (H8799) sacrifices H2077 righteousness H6664 offering H5930 whole H3632 offering H5930 offer...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then shalt Thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering._ SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS They are called the sacrifices of righteousness, which are...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 51:1. This is probably the best known of the “Penitential Psalms” (Psalms 6:1;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 5:2; Malachi 3:3; Psalms 118:27; Psalms 4:5; Psalms 66:13;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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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