“ Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. ”
Hide thy face from my sins - That is, Do not look on them; avert thy face from them; do not regard them. Compare the notes at Psalms 13:1 . And blot out all mine iniquities - Take them entir...
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...
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Hide thy face from my sins - The sentiment here is nearly the same as that in Psalms 51:3 : His sin was ever before his own face; and h...
Hide thy face from my sins— The verb סתר satar, properly signifies to veil, or hide with a veil. The meaning is, "Do not look upon my sins with a severe eye, nor place them in the light of thy...
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities - namely, from thy book of remembrance, so as never to rise in judgm...
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....
Hide thy face ... — i.e., thy angry look. (See Psalms 21:9 .) More usually the expression is used in the opposite sense of hiding the gracious look. As long as Jehovah kept the offences befo...
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...
Nothing but a complete pardon can satisfy David. Hide thy face from my sins, heal my bones that are broken by reason of it! What should we do, whither should we fly, were there not a total oblivion f...
Hide thy face from my sins ,.... In whose sight they were committed, being now ashamed of them himself, and ashamed that any should see them, and especially his God; and being filthy and nauseous, h...
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Ver. 9. Hide thy face from my sins ] We are not able to endure God's presence, much less his justice for our sins; nor can there be an...
Hide thy face from my sins Do not look upon them with an eye of indignation and wrath, but forgive and forget them. Create in me a clean heart Seeing I have not only defiled myself by these actua...
Penitential Petitions. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make...
Do not look upon them with an eye of indignation and revenge, but forget and forgive them. See Psalms 51:1 .
His Prayer For Forgiveness And For The Removal Of His Sins ( Psalms 51:7-9 ). David now turns to the question of how his sins can be removed from him. He recognises that outward ritual would be ir...
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...
A Psalm of David, after Nathan had rebuked him, and he had been convinced of his great guilt in having sinned with Bathsheba. The music to which this Psalm can be sung must be composed of sighs, and...
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...
Colossians 2:14 ; Isaiah 38:17 ; Jeremiah 16:17 ; Micah 7:18 ; Micah 7:19 ; Psalms 51:1
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...