“ Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a rightb spirit within me. ”
Create in me a clean heart, O God - The word rendered “create,” ברא b e râ' - is a word which is properly employed to denote an act of “creation;” that is, of causing something to exist...
(i) Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. (i) He confesses that when God's Spirit is cold in us, to have it again revived, is as a new creation.
LI. A Penitential Psalm. Psalms 51:1-12 . Prayer for pardon and inward renewal. Psalms 51:13-17 . A promise to proclaim God's mercy and bring sinners back to Him. Psalms 51:18 f. Prayer...
Create. Hebrew. bara' , as in Genesis 1:1 . The new heart is not the old one changed, but newly created: i.e. "begotten" by God, as in John 3:6-8 . right . steadfast. Compare Psalms 78:37 ;...
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God! In the previous part of the psalm David has been praying for pardon. He now requests that the grace of the Spirit, which he had forfeited, or deserved t...
DISCOURSE: 591 TRUE RENOVATION OF HEART Psalms 51:10 . Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. PARDON and peace are the first blessings which a penitent will see...
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Create in me a clean heart - Mending will not avail; my heart is altogether corrupted; it must be new made, made as it was in th...
Create in me a clean heart— A clean heart, is a heart free from those impure and disordered passions of which David had too fatally felt the effects, and in possession and under the influence of...
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. -Prayer for the Spirit fittingly follows his prayers for purification, complete forgiveness, and the joy of assurance. Fo...
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....
Right spirit. — So LXX. and Vulg.; but the constant of the margin is nearer the Hebrew, and better.
Psalms 51:1-19 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 reli...
the Prayer of the Contrite Heart Psalms 51:1-10 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 forg...
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 eve...
Pardon alone, without the renewings of the Holy Ghost, will not complete the mercy. Hence, David prays not only to be cleansed, but to be renewed, to be strengthened by the Holy Ghost against any fut...
A CLEAN HEART ‘Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.’ Psalms 51:10 Three things must happen before anything can be created. The Spirit of God must move upon th...
Create in me a clean heart, O God ,.... Which was now defiled with sin, and of which being convinced, he was led more and more to see the impurity of his heart and nature, from which all his evil ac...
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Ver. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God ] His heart was woefully soiled with the filth of sin and the work of grace interr...
Hide thy face from my sins Do not look upon them with an eye of indignation and wrath, but forgive and forget them. Create in me a clean heart Seeing I have not only defiled myself by these actua...
Penitential Petitions. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make...
Create in me a clean heart; seeing I have not only defiled myself by these actual sins, but also have a most filthy heart, corrupted even from my birth, Psalms 51:5 , which nothing but God's alm...
A Prayer For Transformation ( Psalms 51:10-13 ). Genuine repentance seeks not only forgiveness, but transformation of life. It is no good asking for forgiveness if we intend to do it again. So Dav...
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, a...
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 a...
Psalms 51:1-5 . Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, an...
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...
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...
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 occ...
Create in me a clean heart, O God, the believer's heart having been created anew in conversion, and renew a right spirit within me, establishing his heart and soul so that he was sure of his salvat...
1 Corinthians 15:58 ; 1 Kings 15:3-5 ; 1 Peter 1:22 ; 2 Corinthians 5:17 ; Acts 11:23 ; Acts 15:9 ; Colossians 3:10 ; Ephesians 2:10 ; Ephesians 4:22-24 ; Ezekiel 11:19 ; Ezekiel 18:31 ;...
A Penitent's Prayer Psalms 51:1-19 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 emphasi...
Create — Work in me an holy frame of heart, whereby my inward filth may be purged away. Right — Heb. firm or constant, that my resolution may be fixed and unmoveable. Spirit — Temper or disposition...