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PSALM LI
_The psalmist, with a deeply penitent heart, prays for remission_
_of sins_, 1-4;
_which he confesses, and deeply deplores_, 5-14;
_states his willingness to offer sacrifice, but is convi...
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HAVE MERCY OPON ME, O GOD - This is the utterance of a full heart; a
heart crushed and broken by the consciousness of sin. The psalmist had
been made to see his great guilt; and his first act is to cr...
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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 (Psalms 51:14)
4. Prayer...
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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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TITLE.. PSALM. Hebrew. _mizmor._ See App-65.
WHEN NATHAN, &C. See 2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 12:1. David's utterance
when he lay all night upon the earth as. _penitent_ (2 Samuel 12:16).
Compare his utt...
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_Have mercy upon me_ Or, Be gracious unto me, as the word is rendered
in 2 Samuel 12:22. It suggests the free bestowal of favour rather than
the exercise of forgiving clemency, and is connected with t...
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DISCOURSE: 585
TRUE PENITENCE DESCRIBED
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...
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_David prayeth for remission of sins, whereof he maketh a deep
confession: he prayeth for sanctification. God delighteth not in
sacrifice, but in sincerity: David prayeth for the church._
To the chie...
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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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_HAVE MERCY UPON ME, O GOD, ACCORDING TO THY LOVINGKINDNESS: ACCORDING
UNTO THE MULTITUDE OF THY TENDER MERCIES BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSIONS._
Psalms 32:1 was written AFTER this Psalms 51:1, before Dav...
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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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BLOT OUT. — The figure is most probably, as in Exodus 32:32, taken
from the custom of erasing a written record (comp. Numbers 5:23;
Psalms 69:28). So LXX. and Vulg. Isaiah, however (Isaiah 44:22) uses...
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לַ † מְנַצֵּ֗חַ מִזְמֹ֥ור לְ דָוִֽד׃
_[Psalms 51:2]_ בְּֽ בֹוא ־אֵ֭לָיו נָתָ֣ן הַ
נָּבִ֑יא כַּֽ...
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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 pen...
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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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"To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet (a)
came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba." Have mercy upon me,
O God, (b) according to thy lovingkindness: according unto...
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CONTENTS
Here is a penitential Psalm, penned by David, as the title expresses
it, upon a remarkable occasion; in which we trace the sorrowful
workings of his soul in a devout humiliation before God....
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1._Have mercy upon me. _David begins, as I have already remarked, by
praying for pardon; and his sin having been of an aggravated
description, he prays with unwonted earnestness. He does not satisfy
h...
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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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HAVE MERCY UPON ME, O GOD,.... David, under a sense of sin, does not
run away from God, but applies unto him, and casts himself at his
feet, and upon his mercy; which shows the view he had of his mise...
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Psalms 51:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the
prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. » Have
mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according...
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_Have mercy upon me, O God_ O thou, who art the supreme Lawgiver,
Governor, and Judge of the world, whom I have most highly offended
many ways, and, therefore, may most justly be condemned to suffer t...
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Have mercy upon me, O God, a confession of utter unworthiness and a
cry of faith clinging to God as the only Hope of salvation, ACCORDING
TO THY LOVING-KINDNESS, for He forgives sins only for His own...
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1-6 David, being convinced of his sin, poured out his soul to God in
prayer for mercy and grace. Whither should backsliding children
return, but to the Lord their God, who alone can heal them? he dre...
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PSALM 51 _To the chief musician_; to be sung by him and other sacred
musicians publicly in the temple through all ages; that his repentance
might be as manifest and public as his crime and scandal was...
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Psalms 51:1 Musician H5329 (H8764) Psalm H4210 David H1732 Nathan
H5416 prophet H5030 went H935 (H8800) in H935 (H8804) Bathsheba H1339
mercy H2603 (H8798) God H430 lovingkindness H2617 multitude H723...
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AN APPEAL FOR FORGIVENESS AND CLEANSING (PSALMS 51:1).
The Psalm commences with an appeal to God for forgiveness and
cleansing. In these verses David throws himself on the mercy of God,
in recognitio...
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HAVE
This Psalm must ever be, in its successive steps, the mould of the
experience of a sinning saint who comes back to full communion and
service. The steps are:
(1) sin thoroughly judged before Go...
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Psalms 51:1
I. Looking at this triad of petitions, they teach us, first, how David
thought of his sin. (1) Observe the reiteration of the same earnest
cry in all these clauses. It is not a mere piece...
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This is a portion of Scripture, which can never be read too often. If
any among us have never found mercy, let them use this Psalm as their
own personal prayer; while those who have found mercy can re...
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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 pen...
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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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_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 fro...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 51:1. This is probably the best known of
the “Penitential Psalms” (Psalms 6:1; Psalms 25:1; Psalms 32:1;
Psalms 38:1; Psalms 51:1; Psalms 130:1;...
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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, af...
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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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2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 12:1; Acts 3:19; Colossians 2:14; Daniel 9:18;
Daniel 9:9; Ephesians 1:6; Ephesians 2:4; Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7;...
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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...