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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
Hide thy face from my sins,.... In whose sight they were committed, being now ashamed of them himself, and ashamed that any should see them, and especially his God; and being filthy and nauseous, he knew they must be abominable to him, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity; and being breaches of his law, must be offensive to him, and provoke the eyes of his glory; and were such that he...
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
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. You see that the psalmist has many names for sin, for evil, like a great rogue, has many aliases. So it is sometimes sin; sometimes it is transgression, passing over the line of right; and sometimes it is in-equity, or a departure from perfect equity. “Call it by whatever name it may be called, Lord, let me be rid of it. ‘Hide thy face...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. It is not, “Let the evil be hushed up, let not my people hear about it,” but, “Hide thy face from my sins.” It is not, “Help me to forget that I have been a criminal.” No; but, “Hide thy face from my sins.” “And, Lord, when thou art blotting out mine iniquities, blot them all cut; those that have never come to such a public head as...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. “Do not look at my sins, Lord. Forget them; turn thy back upon them; and blot out all mine iniquities.” David comes back to his first prayer. “End my sins, Lord; blot them out, as when an account stands against a debtor, and the creditor erases it from...
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
Hide thy face from my sins, “Lord, look no more at them. Do not hide thy face from me, but hide it from my sins.” “O thou that hear’st when sinners cry, Though all my crimes before thee lie, Behold them not with angry look, But blot their memory from thy book!” Psa_51:9. And blot out all mine iniquities. “Do not let them be recorded any longer, O Lord! Run thy pen through them; let them not stand...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, “Do not look at them, O Lord! Even take pains to put them out of thy sight.” Psa_51:9. And blot out all mine iniquities. “Obliterate them; as though they had been written upon tablets of wax, and thou didst, with a hot iron, put the whole record of them away: ‘blot out all mine iniquities.’ “
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sin, David could not bear that God should look upon them. Psa_51:9. And blot out all mine iniquities. “ Put them right out of sight. Turn thy gaze away from them, and then put them out of everybody’s sight.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Lord, the mischief lies deep. Strike at the root of it. I would not have thee to wash out a spot only, but go to my heart and renew that, that I may sin no more.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. I do not want to hear it unless thou make me to hear it. I would not .be comforted unless thou comfort me. Dread above everything, dear friends, false comfort—false judgments of yourselves—high notions about your own attainments—grand ideas of your own...
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
Hide thy face from my sins, “Lord, do not look at them. Refuse to see them. Hide thy face, not from me, but from my sins.” Psa_51:9. And blot out all mine iniquities. See how he comes back to that note again and again; he is never long away from it. There are certain tunes in which one note is constantly repeated, so is it here. David prays, “O God, put away my sin, blot out my sin, forgive my...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. “And when thou hast done that, change my nature, that I may not sin again.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide thy face from my sins, If we set out sins before our own faces, then God will turn his face away from our sins. If we hide our sins from our faces, God will set them before his face, but when they are ever before us they shall be never before him.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God: It is a creation: the very word is used which is employed concerning the creation in the first chapter of Genesis. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.