“ Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. ”
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion - From himself - his deep sorrow, his conscious guilt, his earnest prayer for pardon and salvation - the psalmist turns to Zion, to the city of God, to the...
Do good in thy good pleasure unto (p) Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. (p) He prays for the whole Church, because through his sin it was in danger of God's judgment.
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...
Zion. See App-68. If verses: Psalms 51:18 ; Psalms 51:19 are. later addition, then they were probably the work of Hezekiah in his editing the Psalms as well as the Proverbs, when the Psalm was h...
18 Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure: build thou the walls of Jerusalem (273) From prayer in his own behalf he now proceeds to offer up supplications for the collective Church of God, a...
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion - This and the following verse most evidently refer to the time of the captivity, whe...
Do good in thy good pleasure, &c.— It has been observed, that this and the next verse seem plainly to shew this Psalm to have been written during the captivity, and therefore the title to be wr...
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....
Do good. — The last two verses have occasioned much controversy. They do not fit in well with the theory of Davidic authorship, Theodoret long ago saying that they better suited the exiles in Babyl...
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...
Observe how the interests of Zion still lay near David's heart. This was the most solemn moment David had ever seen, when one might have thought his own personal sorrows would have swallowed up the c...
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion ,.... This verse, and Psalms 51:19 , are thought, by a Spanish Rabbi mentioned by Aben Ezra, to have been added by one of the holy men that lived in the time...
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Ver. 18. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Sion ] Having made his own peace with God, he now prayeth for the Church: and...
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion Hebrew, ברצונךְ, birtzonecha, for , or according to, thy grace, favour , or pleasure That is, thy free and rich mercy, and thy gracious purpose and promis...
Penitential Petitions. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing...
In thy good pleasure; or, for or according to (for the Hebrew prefix beth is frequently used both those ways) thy good grace , or favour , or pleasure , i.e. thy free and rich mercy, and t...
A Prayer For The Prosperity of Jerusalem ( Psalms 51:18 ). The Psalm as it now stands ends with this prayer. It was possibly not a part of the original Psalm, (which was David's written confession...
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...
We will first read Psalms 51:1 : If we need any music to this Psalm, we must have the liquid melody of tears, sighs, cries, entreaties. It is above all the others, the penitential Psalm. It is th...
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
2 Corinthians 11:28 ; 2 Corinthians 11:29 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:11 ; Daniel 9:25 ; Ephesians 1:5 ; Ephesians 1:9 ; Isaiah 58:12 ; Isaiah 62:1 ; Isaiah 62:6 ; Isaiah 62:7 ; Jeremiah 51:50 ;...
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...
Good pleasure — Thy free and rich mercy. Build — Perfect the walls and buildings of that city, and especially let the temple be built, notwithstanding my sins.