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Psalms 51:17-18

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Psalms 51:17-18. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

This is a blessed end to David’s mournful Psalm. He felt that his sin had a tendency to do injury to the Church of God, - that he had, in fact, pulled down the towers of Zion by his iniquity, so he prays "Build thou the walls of Jerusalem."

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