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Psalms 51

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. ✦ 2Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. ✦ 3For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. ✦ 4Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge. ✦ 5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me. ✦ 6Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. ✦ 7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. ✦ 8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice. ✦ 9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. ✦ 10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. ✦ 11Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me. ✦ 12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit. ✦ 13Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You. ✦ 14Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness. ✦ 15O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise. ✦ 16For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings. ✦ 17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. ✦ 18In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem. ✦ 19Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, in whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Dan 9 ·5Ps 25 ·5Ps 119 ·5Luke 15 ·5Ps 51 ·4Jer 31 ·3Rom 5 ·3Eph 1 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 51 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 51YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 51David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 51Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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