“ Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. ”
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity - literally, “Multiply to wash me.” The word rendered “throughly” is a verb, either in the infinitive or imperative mood, and suggests the idea of “multiplyin...
Wash me (c) throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. (c) My sins strike so fast in me, that I have need of some singular kind of washing.
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...
Wash: as. garment, Hebrew. kabas. Heb form. multiply to wash. wash thoroughly. iniquity. Hebrew. 'avah. App-44. cleanse: i.e. pronounce ceremonially clean. sin. Hebrew. chata'. App-4...
DISCOURSE: 585 TRUE PENITENCE DESCRIBED Psalms 51:1-3 . Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgression...
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Wash me throughly - הרבה כבסני harbeh cabbeseni, "Wash me again and again, - cause my washings to be multiplied." My stain is deep; o...
Wash me thoroughly, &c.— The original כבסני ברבה hereb kabseini is, multiply, or, in multiplying, wash me from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin; for the word multiply refers to...
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity - (cf. Psalms 51:7 .) The Hebrew verb for "wash" is usually employed as to clothes х...
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....
Wash me thoroughly. — Literally, Wash me much, whether we follow the Hebrew text or the Hebrew margin. The two clauses of the verse are not merely antithetic. The terms wash and cleanse seem...
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...
How beautiful these expressions are, if offered wish reference to Christ's blood as the fountain there opened for sin and for uncleanness. And observe in what true sorrow for sin consists; an unceasi...
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity ,.... Which supposes defilement by sin, and that very great, and such as none can remove but the Lord himself; who, when he takes it in hand, does it effectuall...
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Ver. 2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity ] Heb. Multiply, wash me; so Isaiah 55:7 . God is said to multiply pardon as much as...
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity , &c. “I have made myself exceeding loathsome by my repeated and heinous acts of wickedness, which, like a stain that hath long stuck to a garment, is not e...
Penitential Petitions. To the chief musician. A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in...
Wash me throughly, Heb. multiply to wash me ; by which phrase he implies the greatness of his guilt, and the insufficiency of all legal washings, and the absolute necessity of some other and bette...
An Appeal For Forgiveness And Cleansing ( Psalms 51:1-2 ). The Psalm commences with an appeal to God for forgiveness and cleansing. In these verses David throws himself on the mercy of God, in rec...
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 51:1-2 I. Looking at this triad of petitions, they teach us, first, how David thought of his sin. (1) Observe the reiteration of the same earnest cry in all these clauses. It is not a mere...
This is a portion of Scripture, which can never be read too often. If any among us have never found mercy, let them use this Psalm as their own personal prayer; while those who have found mercy can r...
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...
David's Penitential Prayer. To the chief musician, for public performance, as an open confession of David's sin before the whole congregation, showing that his repentance was of the right kind, a...
1 Corinthians 6:11 ; 1 John 1:7-9 ; Ezekiel 36:25 ; Hebrews 10:21 ; Hebrews 10:22 ; Hebrews 9:13 ; Hebrews 9:14 ; Psalms 19:12 ; Psalms 51:7 ; Revelation 1:5 ; Revelation 7:14 ; Zechariah...
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...