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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Psalms 51:13

It is a blessed mark of real repentance, when, after our recovery, we do not scruple to tell others of our worthlessness, and the divine goodness in raising us up, thus preaching to others what the Lord hath done for our souls. Reader, think what everlasting preachers to this amount hath Peter, the Apostle, and David the Prophet been. How hath God in mercy over-ruled their fall to his glory and the comfort of thousands. So Jesus bid Peter, when he should be recovered, to strengthen his brethren; Luke 22:32.

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See also Psalms 51:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 51:13. THEN _WILL I TEACH TRANSGRESSORS_] I will show myself to be grateful; I will testify of thy loving-kindness; I will call on transgressors to consider the error of their ways; and...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN WILL I TEACH TRANSGRESSORS THY WAYS - As an expression of gratitude, and as the result of his own painful experience. He would show them, from that experience, the evil and the bitterness of sin...

  • 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

    Resolutions of thanksgiving....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Having experienced the joy of penitence and restoration, he will endeavour to instruct transgressors in the ways of Jehovah in which they have refused to walk (Isaiah 42:24), those commandments which...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND SINNERS SHALL BE CONVERTED UNTO THEE— i.e. "Be persuaded, by my declaring to them the mercy I have experienced in the forgiveness of my sins, to return to thee by repentance, that they also may ob...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SHALL BE CONVERTED. — Better, _shall turn to thee._ (See Note Psalms 50:23.)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 51:15]_ אֲלַמְּדָ֣ה פֹשְׁעִ֣ים דְּרָכֶ֑יךָ וְ֝ חַטָּאִ֗ים

  • 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] will I teach transgressors thy (l) ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. (l) He promises to endeavour that others by his example may turn to God....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13_I will teach transgressors thy ways _Here he speaks of the gratitude which he would feel should God answer his prayer, and engages to show it by exerting himself in effecting the conversion of othe...

  • 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] WILL I TEACH TRANSGRESSORS THY WAYS,.... David was a prophet as well as a king; see Acts 2:30; and taught men the fear of the Lord, Psalms 34:11, and instructed them in his ways, as he here pro...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Psalms 51:13 [Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Ver. 13. _Then will I teach transgressors thy ways_] _Instruunt nos Patres tum docentes, tum labente...

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

    _Then will I teach transgressors thy way_ Thy will and their duty, and the way to eternal happiness; or, rather, the manner of thy dealing with sinners, whom thou dost so severely chastise for their s...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    NEW OBEDIENCE AS A FRUIT OF FAITH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways, making known to them what God had done for him in delivering him from the misery of his sinful condition; AND SINNERS SHALL BE CONVERTED UNTO THEE, by reason...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THY WAYS; either, 1. Thy will and their duty, and the way to their eternal happiness; or rather, 2. The manner of thy dealing with sinners; whom thou dost so severely chastise for their sins, and yet...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 51:13 teach H3925 (H8762) transgressors H6586 (H8802) ways H1870 sinners H2400 converted H7725 (H8799)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A PRAYER FOR TRANSFORMATION (PSALMS 51:10). Genuine repentance seeks not only forgiveness, but transformation of life. It is no good asking for forgiveness if we intend to do it again. So David wanted...

  • 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 51:13 I. It is the characteristic of the people of God that they desire the conversion of sinners unto God; they are not at least in a healthy state when this desire is not active. So far as t...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

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  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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),

  • 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

    2 Corinthians 5:8; Acts 13:10; Acts 15:3; Acts 2:38; Acts 26:18;...

  • 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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