Psalms 51:9

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 judgment against me (Psalms 51:1).

Related Commentaries of Psalms 51:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 . A...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 5...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
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

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 es...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Se...
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

Do not look upon them with an eye of indignation and revenge, but forget and forgive them. See Psalms 51:1 .
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...
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

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 Biblical Illustrator

Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. God’s pardoning grace This psalm is made up partly of confessions and acknowledgmen...
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

Hide Thy face from my sins, turning it away, in order not to see it any longer and thus be incited to new anger and punishment, and blot out all min...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Colossians 2:14 ; Isaiah 38:17 ; Jeremiah 16:17 ; Micah 7:18 ; Micah 7:19 ; Psalms 51:1
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...

⁹ Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 51:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Psalms 51:9