All these had some share in impelling him to sin; but after all allowance made for them, the deed is the doer’s, and he must bear its burden.” (Maclaren). Or, (2.) Psalms 51-150 (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, Band 8) | Wesselschmidt, Quentin F. | ISBN: 9780830814787 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 5:20 . He prays that, his sins being pardoned, he might have the comfort of that pardon. b. Tehillim - Psalms - Chapter 51. And done this evil in Your sight– We may therefore plead this with him, "Lord, thou art the God of my salvation, therefore deliver me from the dominion of sin.’’ He promises that, if God would deliver him, his tongue should sing aloud of his righteousness; God should have the glory both of pardoning mercy and of preventing grace. His publications include Psalms 51-100, vol. 3:4 ), he would make him to know wisdom, so as to discern and avoid the designs of the tempter another time. It will be of good use for us to have our sins ever before us, that by the remembrance of our past sins we may be kept humble, may be armed against temptation, quickened to duty, and made patient under the cross.(1.) Delude not yourselves with the thought that you have holy desires unless you truly have them. 4. He prays against the guilt of sin, that he might be delivered from that, and promises that then he would praise God, v. 14. We remember that David suffered this agony as a king. He is hereby encouraged, in his repentance, to hope that God would graciously accept him; for, [1.] This all those should do that have had the benefit of it, and owe their all to it. Chapter 51. Those that are thoroughly convinced of their misery and danger by reason of sin would spare no cost to obtain the remission of it, Mic. Commentary. In the New Covenant the believer already has a new heart and is promised the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. “The psalmist who prayed ‘restore to me’ also prays that he may be instrumental in restoring sinners to the ‘ways’ of the Lord.” (VanGemeren). Purge me with hyssop — Or, as with hyssop; the note of similitude being frequently understood. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. 12:13 . Matthew Henry :: Commentary on Psalms 51 ← Back to Matthew Henry's Bio & Resources. He despised the sacrifice of torn and broken beasts, but he will not despise that of a torn and broken heart. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not. In this David anticipated one of the great promises to all who believe under the New Covenant: I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26). God’s righteousness is often put for his grace, especially in the great business of justification and sanctification. 4 Wash me … He prays for sanctifying grace; and this every true penitent is as earnest for as for pardon and peace, v. 10. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. David’s penitential confessions, v. 3-5.1. He here sinned against Bathsheba and Uriah, against his own soul, and body, and family, against his kingdom, and against the church of God, and all this helped to humble him; but none of these were sinned against so as God was, and therefore this he lays the most sorrowful accent upon: Against thee only have I sinned. O Lord, open my lips, This point is technically true, yet doesn’t take away from the deep sense of a need for restoration and return to the first things that may mark an erring child of God even under the New Covenant. "The word that Psalm 51 offers to the desperate is the reiteration of the nature of the God to whom we pray: steadfast love and abundant mercy, a God who is eternally … In the case of Psalm 51, the life-threatening situation is King David’s guilt over the taking of Bathsheba. Secondly, That God might be clear when he judged, that is, when he executed those threatenings. [3.] "Lord, let me be as well assured of my restoration to thy favour, and to the privilege of communion with thee, as they were thereby assured of their re-admission to their former privileges.’’ But it is founded upon gospel-grace: Purge me with hyssop, that is, with the blood of Christ applied to my soul by a lively faith, as water of purification was sprinkled with a bunch of hyssop. Surely men who cavil at this doctrine have need to be taught of the Holy Spirit what be the first principles of the faith.” (Spurgeon). For I acknowledge my transgressions, A psalm of David. If this blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin, cleanse us from our sin, then we shall be clean indeed, Heb. א לַֽ֜מְנַצֵּ֗חַ מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד: 2 When Nathan the prophet came to him when he went to Bath-sheba. Psalms 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. He taught the former by his own example, for the direction of sinners in repenting; he taught the latter by his own experience, for their encouragement. He prays for the continuance of God’s good-will towards him and the progress of his good work in him, v. 11. Oh that there were such a heart in us! In confessing his sin, David hoped to confirm God’s justice and holy character, proving that His commands were good and just even when David broke those commands. "Wipe out my transgressions, that they may not appear to demand judgment against me, nor stare me in the face to my confusion and terror.’’ The blood of Christ, sprinkled upon the conscience, to purify and pacify that, blots out the transgression, and, having reconciled us to God, reconciles up to ourselves, v. 2. 12:11 . a. I acknowledge my transgressions: David realized it was not only one, but multiple transgressions. He does not call upon God to behold it, but upon himself. Men despise that which is broken, but God will not. If God would show himself reconciled to him and his people, as he had prayed, then they should go on with the public services of his house, (1.) Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. It is a terrible thing to be so directly confronted with the blackness of our sin, yet God means even this to be a prelude to joy and gladness. “The unhappy criminal entreats, in this verse, for the divine help and deliverance, as if he not only heard the voice of innocent blood crying from the ground, but as if he saw the murdered Uriah coming upon him for vengeance, like an armed man.” (Horne). 66:2 Isa. A Psalm of David, when the prophet … Continue reading "Commentary on Psalm 51:1-10" A psalm of David. The proud Pharisee despised the broken-hearted publican, and he thought very meanly of himself; but God did not despise him. Purge: “It is based on the word for sin (chattath) and literally means ‘de-sin’ me. It is a term for what God alone can do.” (Kidner). (c) 2020 The Enduring Word Bible Commentary by David Guzik – ewm@enduringword.com. Thy Spirit is a free spirit, a free agent himself, working freely’’ (and that makes those free whom he works upon, for where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty)—"thy ingenuous princely Spirit.’’ He was conscious to himself of having acted, in the matter of Uriah, very disingenuously and unlike a prince; his behaviour was base and paltry: "Lord,’’ says he, "let thy Spirit inspire my soul with noble and generous principles, that I may always act as becomes me.’’ A free spirit will be a firm and fixed spirit, and will uphold us. But those that have been overtaken in any fault ought to reckon a faithful reproof the greatest kindness that can be done them and a wise reprover their best friend. d. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart: David had a great love for the House of the LORD and had sponsored great sacrifices unto God (2 Samuel 6:13, 6:17-18). i. The sacrifice was offered upon the altar that sanctified the gift; so the broken heart is acceptable to God only through Jesus Christ; there is no true repentance without faith in him; and this is the sacrifice which he will not despise. But every once in a while – or hopefully sooner than that – God breaks in on our lives and helps us recognize the gravity of our sin. By this psalm he is, and will be to the world’s end, teaching transgressors, telling them what God had done for his soul. Let the righteous smite me, and it shall be excellent oil. Such a request presented to the God of my salvation would surely be answered. 2 When Nathan the prophet came to him when he went to Bath-sheba. Psalm 51:10. David offers the sacrifice of a penitent contrite heart, as that which he knew God would be pleased with. Psalms 51 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Secondly, That it was committed in God’s sight. Two things David laments in his sin:—First, That it was committed against God. 1. “This verse is both by Jewish and Christian, by ancient and later, interpreters, generally and most truly understood of original sin.” (Poole), iii. A broken and a contrite heart– He promises to do what he could for the good of the souls of others (v. 13) and for the glory of God (v. 16, v. 17, v. 19). 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For grace to go and sin no more (v. 10, v. 11, v. 14). Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. (2.) A Psalm of David # 2 Sam. Had I duly considered this before, I find I should not have made so bold with the temptation, nor have ventured among the sparks with such tinder in my heart; and so the sin might have been prevented. A broken and contrite heart: “This is opposed to that hard or stony heart, of which we read so oft, which signifies a heart insensible of the burden of sin, stubborn and rebellious against God, imminent and incorrigible.” (Poole), iii. 1. These short commentaries are based on Level A EasyEnglish (about 1200 word vocabulary) by Gordon Churchyard. It is difficult to decide between these three commentaries and the volumes by Goldingay. 116:16; 86:16), and yet here he says she conceived him in sin; for though she was, by grace, a child of God, she was, by nature, a daughter of Eve, and not excepted from the common character. d. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities: Repeatedly, David asked for forgiveness and restoration. c. Against You, You only, have I sinned: In an objective sense this was not true. Yet he prays, Wash me, cleanse, blot out my transgressions; for God will be sought unto even for that which he has promised; and those whose sins are pardoned must pray that the pardon may be more and more cleared up to them. (2.) His debauching of Bathsheba was the inlet to all the other sins that followed; it was as the letting forth of water. God had forgiven him, but he could not forgive himself; and therefore he is thus importunate for pardon, as one that thought himself unworthy of it and knew how to value it.II. (1) What the righteous man does not do. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. Solomon was so, and blessed Paul.2. 132:1, Ps. Rich and poor must here meet together; there is one law of repentance for both; the greatest must be judged shortly, and therefore must judge themselves now. "Penitential" means being sorry for your *sins, asking God to *forgive them, and promising not to do them again. We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Psalm 51:1 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Psalm 51:1, NIV: "For the director of music. Note, [1.] "This not only proves it upon me, but renders it exceedingly sinful.’’ This should greatly humble us for all our sins, that they have been committed under the eye of God, which argues either a disbelief of his omniscience or a contempt of his justice. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. If we be washed in this fountain opened, we shall be whiter than snow, not only acquitted but accepted; so those are that are justified. [2.] Psalms 51, Adam Clarke Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary is one of the most respected interdenominational commentaries ever written. also the accompanying psalm, the “sermon hymn” (Ps 51).5 That connection is not surprising, since it can be found throughout the narrative materials of the Old Testa-ment: a unity of story and song that suggests an essential interrelatedness of history and worship at the heart of Israel’s faith.6 Within this tradition, the David story is something of a special case. His sin was a deep stain but purity could be restored. (Psalm 51 Commentary) J N Darby comments regarding purify me… There is the blessed consciousness, that, when the Lord washes us, we are clean every whit, whiter than snow. (2. 3. Free Bible commentary on the Book of Psalms in Easy English - written by Gordon Churchyard for MissionAssist . The God of my salvation, And my sin is always before me. Samuel 12.1) 3 Gott, sei mir gnädig nach deiner Güte und tilge meine Sünden nach deiner großen Barmherzigkeit. It had made him sad, and therefore he prays, Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Herein, generally, he uses the ministry of the word, which yet he is not tied to. After repudiating the ancient sacrifices of sheep, and showing that God wants a sacrifice of praise, lest people thing that this consists only in sound and noise from the lips, he shows what really perfects this sacrifice, namely, hope, contrition and true repentance. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; Commentary, Psalm 51:1-12, Elizabeth Webb, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2015. This expressed a humble reliance upon the LORD. 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