“ Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. ”
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation - literally, “Cause the joy of thy salvation to return.” This implies that he had formerly known what was the happiness of being a friend of God, and of h...
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] (k) free spirit. (k) Which may assure me that I am drawn out of the slavery of sin.
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...
with Thy free spirit: i.e. with. spirit of willing and unforced obedience. Hebrew. ruach. App-9. Compare Exodus 35:5 ; Exodus 35:22 .
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation He cannot dismiss his grief of mind until he have obtained peace with God. This he declares once and again, for David had no sympathy with those w...
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation - This is an awful prayer. And why? Because it shows he once Had the joy of Go...
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation— i.e. The pleasure I have formerly enjoyed, of having a special interest in thy favour, and of being assured that thou wilt continually protect and deliver...
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....
Joy of thy salvation. — This again points to a sense of restoration of covenant privileges. Thy free spirit. — Rather, with a willing spirit. Or we may render, a willing spirit shall support...
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 Sacrifices God Accepts Psalms 51:11-19 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 le...
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...
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ,.... Not temporal, but spiritual and eternal; and designs either Christ himself, who is God's salvation, of his appointing and providing, in the view of who...
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit. Ver. 12. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ] He had grieved that holy thing, that Spirit of God whereby he wa...
Cast me not away from thy presence That is, from thy favour and care. Take not thy Holy Spirit from me Thy sanctifying Spirit, by which alone I can have acquaintance and fellowship with thee. Re...
Penitential Petitions. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make...
The joy of thy salvation; the comfortable sense of thy saving grace and help, promised and vouchsafed to me, both for my present and everlasting salvation. Uphold me ; a weak and frail creature, n...
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...
May God graciously grant to all of us the grace which shall enable us to enter into the penitential spirit which is so remarkable in this Psalm! Psalms 51:1 . Have mercy upon me, O God, He brea...
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...
New Obedience as a Fruit of Faith
1 Peter 1:5 ; 2 Corinthians 3:17 ; Galatians 4:6 ; Galatians 4:7 ; Isaiah 41:10 ; Isaiah 49:13 ; Isaiah 57:17 ; Isaiah 57:18 ; Isaiah 61:10 ; Jeremiah 10:23 ; Jeremiah 31:9-14 ; Job 29:2...
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...
The joy — The comfortable sense of thy saving grace, promised and vouchsafed to me, both for my present and everlasting salvation. Free — Or, ingenuous, or liberal, or princely. Which he seems to o...