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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
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation,.... Not temporal, but spiritual and eternal; and designs either Christ himself, who is God's salvation, of his appointing and providing, in the view of whom, as such, David had much spiritual joy; or the salvation he was to work out, which God the Father had contrived the scheme of in him, had covenanted with him to do, and had appointed his people to:...
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
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
And uphold me with thy free spirit. “I have fallen foully; let me not fall again. Henceforth, I cannot trust myself; do thou uphold me. I have made free to sin. Lord, send me a freer spirit, that I may be free to follow after righteousness.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. “Make me happy, O Lord, but oh, make me steadfast! In delivering me from my sin, deliver me from ever going into it again. Make me like a burnt child that keeps clear of the fire. O my God, come back to me!”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; — “I had it once, Lord; restore it to me, bring it back.” Psa_51:12. And uphold me with thy free spirit. “That I shall not turn aside again. O lift me up, and keep me up, and help me to rise higher and higher!”
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
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. “Lord, I shall slip again unless thou dost hold me up, and, since thou canst not trust thy little child by himself, come and teach me how to walk.”
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
And uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy way’; There are no such teachers of righteousness as those who have smarted under their own personal sin; they can indeed tell to others what the ways of God are. What are those ways? His ways of chastisement,-how he will smite the wandering; his ways of mercy,-how he will restore and forgive the penitent.
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
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. I did know it once. What joy it is—the joy of thy salvation. Give it me back, O Lord. I cannot live on the old mercy. The recollection does not satisfy. It only makes me hunger. “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.”
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
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. David longs for his Lord to some back to him. When God flogs his children, they still cling to him, and they cry to him. They do not wish to run away, and hide themselves from him. No, their only comfort is to weep upon their Father’s bosom, and to wait for the kiss of forgiveness from his lips. So David prays, “Restore...
Charles H. Spurgeon
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. “I will tell others what thou hast done. Thy free grace, thy pardoning mercy, shall not be hidden away in my breast; but I will begin to be a preacher of thy love; ay, and I shall have converts, too, for the news of thy grace to me shall...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me. He feels how much he needs it. The burnt child dreads the fire. “Uphold me with thy free spirit.”