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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. None sing so loudly the praises of redeeming grace as those who have been forgiven great sins. There is no music, outside heaven, that has such a volume of God-glorifying praise in it as the song of the man who loves much because...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. He puts his finger on the sin. He might have said, and at one time he did say, that he did not kill Uriah the Hittite. Ah, but when he is right with God, he makes no pretences! He does not mince the matter, but he confesses the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; His faith is growing. He has humbled himself. It is the way to rise. Weaken thyself before God, and thou shalt grow strong. Empty thyself, and thou shalt be filled; bow low, and he will lift thee up. “Thou God of my salvation.” Psa_51:14. And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O Lord, open thou my lips,.... The Targum adds, "in the late"; which were shut with a sense of sin, with shame of it, and sorrow for it; and though they were in some measure opened in prayer to God for the forgiveness of it, as appears by various petitions in this psalm, yet he still wanted a free spirit and boldness at the throne of grace, which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; He felt as if he was going too fast when he promised to speak and to sing, so he prayed: “O Lord, open thou my lips”- Psa_51:15. And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. When good men have had a fall, they walk very tenderly afterwards. Put them on their legs, and they are very careful how they move. They are afraid to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: “Bullocks, rams, lambs, — thou carest not for these?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. God cares little for the mere outward forms of worship; Ritualistic observances are nothing to him: “Thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord open thou my lips: and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. How wonderfully a true sense of sin puts a man on the track of Evangelical doctrine, David could see that sin was too grievous a thing for the blood of sheep and bullocks to wash it away,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; — In the eighth verse, he had prayed, “Make me to hear;” and now he does as good as say, “Make me to speak.” Sin puts all the organs of the human body out of order, and grace is needed to put them all right again: “O Lord, open thou my lips;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; — The offering of bullocks, and lambs, and rams amid the pomp of priestly ritual: “Thou desirest not sacrifice;” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips He is afraid to open them himself lest he should say something amiss. Pardoned sinners are always afraid lest they should err again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest no sacrifice; else would I give it: “ Whatever share is in the whole world that thou desirest, I would gladly give it to thee, my God.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 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. Then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. What a sweet verse that is! Have you got a broken heart tonight, dear friend, and do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; — He felt as if he could not be trusted to open his own lips; and, certainly, he was not to be trusted to open his own eyes, for when he had aforetime opened them, he had looked on that which led him into sin. So now he would have God to keep his very lips, that he shall never speak again except as he shall be guided...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Very naturally, David’s mind began to think of the multitudes of bullocks, and lambs, and rams, that were burnt upon Jehovah’s altar. There is nothing that makes a man so spiritual, and so Evangelical, as a deep sense of sin. You cannot be a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Are you bringing this sacrifice to the Lord? Are there some in this house of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. You know the leper when he was unclean — what did he do? He covered his lips, as much as to confess that he was not fit to speak. So here the unclean David, with the covering over his lips, will not venture to speak until the Lord has taken away his sin, and opened his mouth for...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou desirest not sacrifice,.... Legal sacrifice; for there was no sacrifice appointed under the law for murder and adultery; else would I give [it]; he would gladly have offered it up; thou delightest not in burnt offering; at least such kind of sacrifices, though they were of divine appointment, and at that time in full force and use; yet...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it David remembered that, under the law, there was no sacrifice appointed for the expiation of adultery. There were some sins that were left out of the catalogue, and this was one of them.