Psalms 51:7

1 John 1:7; Ephesians 5:26; Ephesians 5:27; Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 9:19; Isaiah 1:18; Leviticus 14:4-7; Leviticus 14:49-52; Numbers 19:18-20; Revelation 1:5; Revelation 7:13; Revelation 7:14

Related Commentaries of Psalms 51:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean - On the word hyssop, see the notes at John 19:29 ; notes at Hebrews 9:19 . The plant or herb was mu...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Purge me . Thou wilt sin-cleanse me, or un-sin me: i.e. expiate by the blood of. sin offering. hyssop. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cau...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. Thou shalt purge me with hyssop He still follows out the same strain of supplication; and the repetition of his requests for pardon prove...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 589 THE MEANS OF DELIVERANCE FROM SPIRITUAL LEPROSY Psalms 51:7 . Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Purge me with hyssop - תחטאני techatteeni, "thou shalt make a s...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Purge me with hyssop— תחטאני techatteeni: properly, expiate my sin, with hyssop. The Psalmist alludes to the purification from the leprosy; Le...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Prayer for forgiveness and for the Spirit. Purge me w...
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 n...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hyssop ] employed in the OT. ceremonies of purification, a bunch of the herb being used to sprinkle blood ( Leviticus 14:6-7 ) or water ( Numbers 19...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hyssop. — The mention of this connects this verse with the priestly ordinances concerning leprosy and contact with a dead body ( Leviticus 14 ; Nu...
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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
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 histori...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

He here goes back to the source of all sin, in original depravity! What hyssop shall purge this away, what washing of water will make this clean? Oh!...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Purge me with hyssop ,.... Or "thou shalt purge me with hyssop" f; or "expiate me"; which was used in sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb on th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Ver. 7. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean ] Sprinkl...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Purge me with hyssop Or, as with hyssop; the note of similitude being frequently understood. As lepers, and other unclean persons, are by thy app...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Penitential Petitions. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

With hyssop; or, as with hyssop ; the note of similitude being frequently understood. As lepers and other unclean persons are by thy appointment p...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
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...
Scofield Reference Notes

Hyssop Hyssop was the little shrub ( 1 Kings 4:33 ) with which the blood and water of purification were applied. ( Leviticus 14:1-7 ); ( Numbe...
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, in...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 perso...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Although we may have been preserved by divine grace from any gross and open sin, yet let us read this Psalm in the spirit of penitence. I always feel...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 51:1-5 . Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgr...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, and rebuked him, in the name of God, for his great sin with Bathsheba. Psalms 51:1 . Have m...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

May God graciously grant to all of us the grace which shall enable us to enter into the penitential spirit which is so remarkable in this Psalm! Ps...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

It is a Psalm, and therefore it is to be sung. It is dedicated to the chief Musician, and there is music in it, but it needs a trained ear to catch t...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Let us read two Psalms of penitence. Repentance, and faith go hand in hand all the way to heaven. Repenting and believing make up a large measure of...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 51:1 . Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressi...
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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 abo...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

There are seven penitential Psalms, but this seems to be the chief one of the seven. The language of David is as suitable to us today as it was to hi...
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, “w...
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--w...
The Biblical Illustrator

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Original depravity Men may come upon this doctrine one of two different...
The Biblical Illustrator

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Prayer an index of the heart Men’s prayers are this. And they show, also, how far men agree with on...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

David's Penitential Prayer. To the chief musician, for public performance, as an open confession of David's sin before the whole congregation, sho...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Purge me with hyssop, a species of marjoram used in ceremonies of purification, Leviticus 14:4 , and I shall be clean, declared justified in the e...
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 re...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hyssop — As lepers, are by thy appointment purified by the use of hyssop and other things, so do thou cleanse me a leprous and polluted creature, b...

⁷ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 51:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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