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Psalms 51:7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Psalms 51:7. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

This is delightful pleading on David’s part. He had seen the priest take the sprigs of hyssop, and dip them in the blood, and then sprinkle the leper therewith; so his prayer is, "Lord, give me purification through the atonement. ‘Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.’ " It requires strong faith, when under a deep sense of sin, to be quite sure that God can put the sin away. It is a grand thing to be able to say, "Wash me, foul as I am wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."

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