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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 51 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. The occasion of this psalm was the sin of David with Bathsheba, signified by "going in to her"; an euphemism for "lying with her"; which sin was a very aggravated one, she being another man's wife, and the wife of a servant and soldier of his, who was at the...
John Gill
Cast me not away from thy presence,.... As abominable; as a vessel in which he had no pleasure; with indignation and wrath; as one that is angry with another, cannot bear him in his sight, but bids him be gone from him. Nothing is more desirable to a child of God than the presence of God; and nothing gives him more sensible pain than his absence; and even to be deprived of or denied the means of...
Matthew Henry
Though David penned this psalm upon a very particular occasion, yet, it is of as general use as any of David's psalms; it is the most eminent of the penitential psalms, and most expressive of the cares and desires of a repenting sinner. It is a pity indeed that in our devout addresses to God we should have any thing else to do than to praise God, for that is the work of heaven; but we make other...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; “I have acted as if you were not present, but, oh, do not fling me away! Do not take away thy presence from me.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
And take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; “I was so happy once. Oh, give me back my joy!”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Are you praying these prayers, dear friends, as we are reading them? I am sure you are if you have ever enjoyed the presence of God, if the Holy Spirit is your daily companion. And if you have lost that heavenly company, if you have lost that comfortable presence, I know that you are crying to get it back again; and it will...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; — “Dismiss me not thy service, Lord.” “Chase me not out of doors; banish me not from where thy face may be seen: ‘Cast me not away from thy presence.’” Psa_51:11. And take not thy holy spirit from me. “For, if thou do so, I am utterly undone. I shall go from bad to worse; I shall never repent; I shall never believe. I am as good as damned already if thou take...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clear heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. “If thou wilt only save me, I...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me, “O Lord, do not thrust me into a dungeon, and say, ‘Thou shalt never be a favoured child of mine again.’ ‘Take not thy Holy Spirit from me. That I should dread beyond everything else.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; “I cannot bear to be away from thy presence; I must see thy face, or I cannot live.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
And take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. One of our proverbs says, “A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind;” and he who knows by bitter experience what sin is, talks tenderly and sympathetically to his fellow-sinners; and God is sure to...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; “Lift me up, and then keep me up. Let me never sin against thee again.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways: and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. In that verse there is one of the surest...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Do not fling me away as a man pulls up a weed by the roots and throws it on a dunghill. “Take not thy Holy Spirit from me.” Oh! how often will the child of God have to pray this prayer? The Holy Spirit is in him, and he knows it, but he grieves the Spirit; and when his heart is very tender this is his daily fear—lest the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is, ever before me. 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. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. These are the groanings of a true child of God. Never has a man, without the Spirit of God within him, prayed to God in this fashion. David, therefore, notwithstanding all his sin, still had the life of God within his soul, and when Nathan came to...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. He might well be afraid that, after so foul a fall, so disgraceful a crime, God would cast him away; but he prays that it may not be so: “Cast me not away from thy presence.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy spirit from me. I have put thee away from my presence by forgetting thee, but put me not away from thy presence. I have been filled with an unholy spirit, but oh! take not thy Holy Spirit from me.