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Verse Psalms 51:2. _WASH ME THROUGHLY_] הרבה כבסני _harbeh
cabbeseni_, "Wash me again and again, - cause my washings to be
multiplied." My stain is deep; ordinary purgation will not be
sufficient....
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WASH ME THROUGHLY FROM MINE INIQUITY - literally, “Multiply to wash
me.” The word rendered “throughly” is a verb, either in the
infinitive or imperative mood, and suggests the idea of
“multiplying” or...
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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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WASH: as. garment, Hebrew. _kabas._ Heb form. multiply to wash. wash
thoroughly.
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44.
CLEANSE: i.e. pronounce ceremonially clean.
SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44,...
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Prayer for forgiveness and cleansing: its ground, God's grace; its
condition, man's repentance....
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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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WASH ME THOROUGHLY, &C.— The original כבסני ברבה _hereb
kabseini_ is, _multiply,_ or, _in multiplying, wash me from mine
iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin;_ for the word _multiply_ refers
to both v...
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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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_WASH ME THROUGHLY FROM MINE INIQUITY, AND CLEANSE ME FROM MY SIN._
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity - (cf. Psalms 51:7.) The Hebrew
verb for "wash" is usually employed as to clothes х_ KAABAC_ ...
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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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WASH ME THOROUGHLY. — Literally, _Wash me much,_ whether we follow
the Hebrew text or the Hebrew margin. The two clauses of the verse are
not merely antithetic. The terms _wash_ and _cleanse_ seem to...
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_[Psalms 51:4]_ _הֶ֭רֶב_† כַּבְּסֵ֣נִי מֵ
עֲוֹנִ֑י וּֽ מֵ חַטָּאתִ֥י
טַהֲרֵֽנִי׃...
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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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Wash me (c) throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
(c) My sins strike so fast in me, that I have need of some singular
kind of washing....
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_Achimelech. Sixtus V, Septuagint, &c., read Abimelech. But the former
is the true name. See 1 Kings xxii. 9, 20. (Calmet) --- The word
understanding implies, that we ought to reflect on the misery of...
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How beautiful these expressions are, if offered wish reference to
Christ's blood as the fountain there opened for sin and for
uncleanness. And observe in what true sorrow for sin consists; an
unceasin...
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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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WASH ME THOROUGHLY FROM MINE INIQUITY,.... Which supposes defilement
by sin, and that very great, and such as none can remove but the Lord
himself; who, when he takes it in hand, does it effectually a...
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Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Ver. 2. _Wash me throughly from mine iniquity_] Heb. Multiply, wash
me; so Isaiah 55:7. God is said to multiply pardon as much as we...
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_Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity_, &c. “I have made myself
exceeding loathsome by my repeated and heinous acts of wickedness,
which, like a stain that hath long stuck to a garment, is not easily...
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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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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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WASH ME THROUGHLY, Heb. _multiply to wash me_; by which phrase he
implies the greatness of his guilt, and the insufficiency of all legal
washings, and the absolute necessity of some other and better t...
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Psalms 51:2 Wash H3526 (H8761) thoroughly H7235 (H8685) iniquity H5771
cleanse H2891 (H8761) sin H2403
Wash - Psalms 51:7; Ezekiel 36:25; Zechariah 13:1; 1 Corinthians 6:11;...
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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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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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1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 John 1:7; Ezekiel 36:25; Hebrews 10:21; Hebrews
10:22; Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 9:14; Psalms 19:12; Psalms 51:7;...
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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...