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1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy
sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be
clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden
part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall
be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast
broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit
within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit
from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy
free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be
converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:
and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy
praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou
delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a
contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of
Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer
bullocks upon thine altar.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2. Seventh-day Adventist Bible
Commentary - Vol. 3 pg. 755
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About Psalm 51 |
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Psalm 51 was composed by
David after his great sin (with Bathsheba), in the
anguish of remorse and self abhorrence.2 |
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Music
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The
music was composed in
2006
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Music for
Psalm 51 |
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Title and Inscription |
To the chief Musician, A Psalm
of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he
had gone in to Bathsheba.
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Background to Psalm 51 |
Psalm 51 is an expression of
David's "repentance, when the message of reproof came to him
from God," intended "to be sung in the public assemblies of
his people, ... that others might be instructed by the sad
history of his fall". It is a prayer for forgiveness and for
sanctification through the Holy Spirit. Accompanying the
petition are vows of gratitude for God's mercy and promises
for the future. Perhaps no other OT passage draws so clear a
picture of the truly repentant sinner trusting in God's
power to forgive and restore, as this portrait of David's
experience of transgression. The psalm should be studied in
the light of 2 Sam. 12:1-13 and Ps. 32.2
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A Favourite Psalm |
Psalm 51 was a favourite of
John Bunyan. Just before her execution (1554), Lady Jane
Grey recited the words of this psalm in English, on her
knees on the scaffold.2
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