“ O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. ”
O Lord, open thou my lips - That is, by taking away my guilt; by giving me evidence that my sins are forgiven; by taking this burden from me, and filling my heart with the joy of pardon. The orig...
O Lord, (n) open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. (n) By giving me opportunity to praise you, when you will forgive my sins.
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...
LORD * . Jehovah. App-4. One of the 134 alterations of the Sopherim. App-32.
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. O Lord, open thou my lips - My heart is believing unto righteousness; give me thy peace, that my tongue may make confession unto s...
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. -He promises spiritual sacrifices of praise, and efforts for the conversion of other transgressors, as the f...
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....
My lips. — Comp. Psalms 71:15 . The sense of forgiveness is like a glad morning to song-birds.
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...
Behold, now David's heart is awakened, how the foul sin of murder haunted his guilty conscience!
O Lord, open thou my lips ,.... The Targum adds, "in the late"; which were shut with a sense of sin, with shame of it, and sorrow for it; and though they were in some measure opened in prayer to God...
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. Ver. 15. O Lord, open thou my lips ] Which now I find stopped and sealed up, as it were, with the sin that doth so easily beset...
Deliver me from blood-guiltiness Hebrew, מדמים, middamim , from bloods , because he had been the cause of the death, not only of Uriah, but of others of the Lord's people with him, 2 Samuel 11:1...
Penitential Petitions. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing...
Open thou my lips; which are shut with shame, and grief, and horror. Restore unto me the opportunity, and ability, and liberty which formerly I had of speaking to thee with freedom, and boldness, a...
Recognising That His Only Hope Lies In Total And Contrite Submission David Makes A Final Plea That God Will Deliver Him From Blood-guiltiness ( Psalms 51:14-17 ). Blood-guiltiness is an idea promi...
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...
There are many sweet notes in Christian music, but to my own heart there is none so softly, tenderly, sweet as the note of repentance. Full assurance rings out her clarion trumpet strain, and we ough...
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 Samuel 2:9 ; Exodus 4:11 ; Ezekiel 16:63 ; Ezekiel 29:21 ; Ezekiel 3:27 ; Genesis 44:16 ; Hebrews 13:15 ; Mark 7:34 ; Matthew 22:12 ; Psalms 119:13 ; Psalms 63:3-5 ; Romans 3:19
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...
My lips — Which are shut with shame and grief.