Psalms 51:8

Acts 16:29-34; Acts 2:37-41; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 6:2; Isaiah 57:15-18; Job 5:17; Job 5:18; Luke 4:18; Matthew 5:4; Psalms 119:81; Psalms 119:82; Psalms 126:5; Psalms 126:6; Psalms 13:5; Psalms 30:11; Psalms 38:3; Psalms 6:2; Psalms 6:3

Related Commentaries of Psalms 51:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Make me to hear joy and gladness - That is, the voice of forgiveness, causing joy and rejoicing. What he wished to hear was the kind voice of God...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Make me to hear (g) joy and gladness; [that] the (h) bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice. (g) He means God's comfortable mercies toward repen...
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

Make me . Thou wilt make me.
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 590 THE OPERATIONS OF SIN AND OF GRACE Psalms 51:8 . Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou hast broken may rejo...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Make me to hear joy - Let me have a full testimony of my rec...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Make me to hear joy and gladness— The displeasure which God expressed against the sins he had been guilty of, and the deep sense he had of the aggr...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which t...
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

Bones which thou hast broken ] see on Isaiah 42:10 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The bones which thou hast broken... — Through his whole being the psalmist has felt the crushing weight of sin; to its very fibres, as we say, hi...
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

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, whithe...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Make me to hear joy and gladness ,.... Which he had not heard for some time; sin had sadly broke in upon and interrupted his spiritual peace and joy...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice. Ver. 8. Make me to hear joy and gladness ] God will spe...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Make me to hear joy and gladness Send me glad tidings of thy reconciliation to me; and by thy Spirit seal the pardon of my sins on my conscience, w...
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

Send me glad tidings of thy reconciliation to me, and by thy Spirit seal the pardon of my sins to my conscience, which will fill me with joy, that mi...
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...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 51:8 I. (1) The sin of David was ( a ) a sin against light, and ( b ) a sin without excuse. He fell with frightful injury to himself, and t...
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

For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Acknowledgment of transgression I. The proposition. “I acknowledge my transg...
The Biblical Illustrator

Make me to hear of joy and gladness, that the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice. The depression of believers This is the language of Dav...
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

Make me to hear joy and gladness, that is David's confident prayer now that his sins are forgiven, that the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice...
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

Joy — By thy spirit, seal the pardon of my sins on my conscience, which will fill me with joy. Rejoice — That my heart which hath been sorely wound...

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 51:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

Sermon Bible Commentary

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

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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