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Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 51:1-3

DISCOURSE: 585TRUE PENITENCE DESCRIBEDPsalms 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 transgressions! Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me.SIN is, for the most part, thought a light and venial evil, especially amongst the higher ranks of society: as though the restraints of religion were designed only for the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 51:4

DISCOURSE: 586SIN AN OFFENCE AGAINST GODPsalms 51:4. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.THE occasion of this psalm is well known: it refers to one of the most melancholy transactions that ever took place in the world. In point of enormity, the deed is almost without a parallel; because it was performed by a man who till that time had made the highest professions of religion,... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Psalms 51:4

Unimpeachable Justice June 15, 1856 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest." Psalms 51:4 . Yesterday was to me a day of deep solemnity; a pressure rested on my mind throughout the whole of it, which I could not by any possibility remove, for at every hour I remembered that during that day one of the most fallen of my fellow-creatures was launched... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 51:1-19

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 51:1-19 .David is surely one of the most outstanding characters of the Old Testament. He was greatly hated and greatly loved. He had the capacity to inspire tremendous emotions in people, on both ends of the spectrum. He is always talking about his enemies that are trying to do him in. But yet, there was a great number of people who really followed David with a great devotion. David was called a man after God's own heart. And this appellation was given... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 51:1-19

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 gone in to Bathsheba.” This application of the psalm has been disputed by some modern critics and commentators, chiefly because they think Psalms 51:4; Psalms 51:18-19, are not applicable to David’s complicated sin, and to the existing state of Jerusalem, whose walls were not then cast down. But... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:1-19

Psalms 51:1-19Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness. The fifty-first psalmA darker guilt you will scarcely find--kingly power abused--worst passions yielded to. Yet this psalm breathes from a spirit touched with the finest sensibilities of spiritual feeling. Two sides of our mysterious twofold being here. Something in us near to hell; something strangely near to God. It is good to observe this, that we rightly estimate: generously of fallen humanity; moderately of highest... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:2

Psalms 51:2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.David’s cry for pardonI. How David thought of his sin. The repetition of these petitions show his earnestness of soul. In like manner he asks for the gifts of God’s Spirit.1. He speaks of transgressions, the individual acts of sin; and then--2. Of the iniquity which is the centre and root of them all. Further, in all the petitions we see that the idea of his own single responsibility for the whole thing is uppermost in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:4

Psalms 51:4Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight: that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest.Unimpeachable justiceOur subject will be, that both in the condemnation and in the punishment of every sinner God will be justified. Now, concerning such condemned ones, we will speak--I. Of the Christian whose conscience condemns him. He will make the words of our text his own, and will say, “Thou art justified when Thou speakest,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:2

Psa 51:2 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 we multiply sin. David apprehended his sin so exceeding sinful, his stain so inveterate, so engrained, that it would hardly be ever gotten out till the cloth were almost rubbed to pieces; that God himself would have somewhat to do to do it. He had been in a deep ditch, Proverbs 23:27 , and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:3

Psa 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me. Ver. 3. For I acknowledge my transgressions ] And therefore look for pardon, according to thy promise. Homo agnoseit, Deus ignoscit. And my sin ] My twisted sin and sadly accented; mine accumulative sin, voluminous wickedness, that hath so many sins bound up in it, as Cicero saith of parricide. Is ever before me ] To my great grief and regret, my conscience twitteth me with it, and the devil layeth it in my dish.... read more

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 51:1-3

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 51:4

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Psalms 51:4

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 51:1-19

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 51:1-19

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:1-19

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:2

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 51:4

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 51:3

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