Psalms 51:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. ”

• Psalms 51:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The sacrifices of God - The sacrifices which God desires and approves; the sacrifices without which no other offering would be acceptable. David felt that that which he here specified was what wa...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The sacrifices of God [are] a (o) broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (o) Which is a wounding of the heart, proceeding from faith, which seeks God for mercy.

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• Psalms 51:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  sacrifices. Plural of majesty. the great sacrifice. Compare Isaiah 57:16 ; Isaiah 66:2 . not despise. Figure of speech Tapeinosis , meaning that God will do infinitely more than words can exp...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. He had shown that sacrifices have no such efficacy in procuring the Divine favor as the Jews imagined; and now he declares that he needed to bri...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 593 A BROKEN HEART THE BEST SACRIFICE Psalms 51:16-17 . Thon desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt-offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken sp...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit - As my crimes are such as admit of no legal atonem...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The sacrifices of God, &c.— The sacrifices of God are either, such as were fit to be offered to God in consequence of such grievous offences as David had committed, or such as God would regard,...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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....

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• Psalms 51:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Oh! how much gospel is here: surely David had seen and felt the efficacy of Christ's blood, or he never could have learned to think so lightly of the sacrifices under the law.

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• Psalms 51:17 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  Notice one or two of those accepted sacrifices which from time to time have been set up in our world, and which the Holy Spirit has recorded for our humiliation, our comfort, and our happiness.. I...

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• Psalms 51:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit ,.... That is humbled under a sense of sin; has true repentance for it; is smitten, wounded, and broken with it, by the word of God in the hand of the Spi...

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• Psalms 51:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ver. 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit ] i.e. Such a heart as lieth low, a...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For thou desirest not sacrifice Which is not to be understood absolutely and universally, as appears from Psalms 51:19 , but comparatively, (see on Psalms 40:6 ,) and with particular respect to D...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Penitential Petitions.       14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The sacrifices: this is instead of or of more value than many sacrifices. Of God; which God in such cases as mine requires, and will accept; in which sense we read of the work of God , 1 Thess...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  This Psalm is dedicated to the chief musician, so that it was intended to be sung. Yet it is not by any means a joyous piece of music. It seems more fit to be sung or sighed as a solo for the solitar...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  New Obedience as a Fruit of Faith

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• Psalms 51:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 2:5 ; 2 Chronicles 33:12 ; 2 Chronicles 33:13 ; 2 Kings 22:19 ; Amos 5:21 ; Ezekiel 9:3 ; Ezekiel 9:4 ; Ezekiel 9:6 ; Hebrews 13:16 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Isaiah 61:1-3 ; Isaiah 66:2 ;...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 51:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A broken spirit — This is of more value than many sacrifices.

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