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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
Purge me with hyssop,.... Or "thou shalt purge me with hyssop" (f); or "expiate me"; which was used in sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb on the door posts of the Israelites in Egypt, that the destroying angel might pass over them, Exodus 12:22; and in the cleansing of the leper, Leviticus 14:4; and in the purification of one that was unclean by the touch of a dead body, c. Numbers 19:6...
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
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...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. I do think that this is grand faith, for a man, blinded by his tears, broken-hearted through his sin, to feel that God can make him clean. “Take thou the hyssop, as I have seen my father do on the Passover night, when the lamb was slain, and the blood of it caught in the basin. Have I not seen him dip the hyssop...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: “Take the bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood of the lamb, and then purge me with it, and I shall be clean.” What a wonderful faith this is! “I who am so black, I who am black as hell; yet, if thou dost but purge me with the sacrificial blood of Jesus Christ, I shall be clean.” Psa_51:7. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Again, I say, what...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, — Take the bunch of hyssop as the priests did, dip it into the basin filled with sacrificial blood: “Purge me with hyssop.” Apply the precious blood of Jesus to me, —
Charles H. Spurgeon
And I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. He feels like a man whose bones are broken, and he asks the Lord, by putting away his sin, to bind up those broken bones till every one of them should sing a song of gratitude to the Divine Healer.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: “Sprinkle the blood of atonement upon me, give me a sacrificial cleansing, and then I shall be clean.” Psa_51:7. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. To my mind, this is a wonderful expression of faith, I do not know of any Scripture that seems more full of holy confidence than this is. David had such a deep sense of his sinfulness that it was a...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, — “O Lord, thou hast ordained means by which leprous sinners may be cleansed; the outward sign is the bunch of hyssop dipped in sacrificial blood. O Lord, give me in every deed what that sign means! Give me the cleansing influence of the blood of the great sacrifice: ‘Purge me with hyssop,’ “ —
Charles H. Spurgeon
And I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. I cannot help once more remarking, though I have often before made the same observation, that we have here the evidence of wonderful faith on David’s part. He has a very real consciousness of the blackness of his sin, yet he also has a triumphant conviction that God can put that sin away, and can make even his defiled nature to...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. This is a grand declaration of faith. I know not of such faith as this anywhere else. The faith of Abraham is more amazing; but, to my mind this faith of poor broken-hearted David, when he saw himself to be black with sin and crimson with grime, and yet could say, “ Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow,” is...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me. and · shall be whiter than snow. “Behold,” says he, as if to go to the bottom of it, and to show that sin was not an accident with him, but that he himself was sinful....
Charles H. Spurgeon
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. “With hyssop.” Just as the priest took the bunch of herbs, and put it into the basin full of blood, and stirred it round and round till he soaked the hyssop in the crimson and then sprinkled it upon the penitent, oh Lord, apply the blood of Christ to my soul. Purge with me hyssop”-“ And I shall be clean.” I...
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
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: As the priest purges the unclean man by dipping the bunch of hyssop into the blood of the sacrifice, and then sprinkling him with it, so, “purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.” Psa_51:7. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. “That is to say, I shall be clean if thou dost wash me, O Lord! My own washings make me no cleaner; my own purgations...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. David does not hope to wash himself, he does not trust in outward ceremonies: but he appeals to God, the God against whom he has...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: He had seen the leper pronounced clean when the hyssop was dipped in blood and sprinkled on him; but then the leper had to be clean beforehand before this could make him ceremonially clean. He is leaping through the first process and coming to the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Yet what can be whiter than snow? Snow is not like a whited wall that is but white on the surface: it is white all through. And yet when God washes the believer, he makes him whiter than snow, for the snow soon becomes tainted, soon loses its purity; but we never shall if God shall wash us. There was no provision made for the cleansing of an adulterer...