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Verse Psalms 51:18. _DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE UNTO ZION_] This
and the following verse most evidently refer to the time of the
_captivity_, when the _walls of Jerusalem were broken down_, and the...
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DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE UNTO ZION - From himself - his deep
sorrow, his conscious guilt, his earnest prayer for pardon and
salvation - the psalmist turns to Zion, to the city of God, to the
peopl...
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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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ZION. See App-68. If verses: Psalms 51:18; Psalms 51:19 are. later
addition, then they were probably the work of Hezekiah in his editing
the Psalms as well as the Proverbs, when the Psalm was handed o...
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Cp. Psalms 102:13 ff....
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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...
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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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DO GOOD. — The last two verses have occasioned much controversy.
They do not fit in well with the theory of Davidic authorship,
Theodoret long ago saying that they better suited the exiles in
Babylon....
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_[Psalms 51:20]_ הֵיטִ֣יבָה בִ֭ רְצֹונְךָ אֶת
־צִיֹּ֑ון תִּ֝בְנֶ֗ה חֹומֹ֥ות
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃...
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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 tain...
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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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Do good in thy good pleasure unto (p) Zion: build thou the walls of
Jerusalem.
(p) He prays for the whole Church, because through his sin it was in
danger of God's judgment....
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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...
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18_Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure: build thou the walls of
Jerusalem _(273) From prayer in his own behalf he now proceeds to
offer up supplications for the collective Church of God, a duty which...
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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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DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE UNTO ZION,.... This verse, and
Psalms 51:19, are thought, by a Spanish Rabbi mentioned by Aben Ezra,
to have been added by one of the holy men that lived in the time of
t...
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Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of
Jerusalem.
Ver. 18. _Do good in thy good pleasure unto Sion_] Having made his own
peace with God, he now prayeth for the Church: and th...
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_Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion_ Hebrew, ברצונךְ,
_birtzonecha, for_, or _according to, thy grace, favour_, or
_pleasure_ That is, thy free and rich mercy, and thy gracious purpose
and promise...
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NEW OBEDIENCE AS A FRUIT OF FAITH...
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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...
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IN THY GOOD PLEASURE; or, _for_ or _according_ to (for the Hebrew
prefix _beth_ is frequently used both those ways) _thy good grace_, or
_favour_, or _pleasure_, i.e. thy free and rich mercy, and thy...
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Psalms 51:18 good H3190 (H8685) pleasure H7522 Zion H6726 Build H1129
(H8799) walls H2346 Jerusalem H3389
Do - Psalms 25:22, Psalms 102:16, Psalms 122:6-9, Psalms 137:5-6;...
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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),
bu...
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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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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 Corinthians 11:28; 2 Corinthians 11:29; 2 Thessalonians 1:11; Daniel
9:25; Ephesians 1:5; Ephesians 1:9; Isaiah 58:12; Isaiah 62:1; Isaiah
62:6;...
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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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Good pleasure — Thy free and rich mercy. Build — Perfect the walls
and buildings of that city, and especially let the temple be built,
notwithstanding my sins....