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Psalms 51

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1Be gracious to me, God, according to Your faithfulness; According to the greatness of Your compassion, wipe out my wrongdoings. ✦ 2Wash me thoroughly from my guilt And cleanse me from my sin. ✦ 3For I know my wrongdoings, And my sin is constantly before me. ✦ 4Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge. ✦ 5¶Behold, I was brought forth in guilt, And in sin my mother conceived me. ✦ 6Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in secret You will make wisdom known to me. ✦ 7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; Cleanse me, and I will be whiter than snow. ✦ 8Let me hear joy and gladness, Let the bones You have broken rejoice. ✦ 9Hide Your face from my sins And wipe out all my guilty deeds. ✦ 10¶Create in me a clean heart, God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. ✦ 11Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. ✦ 12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And sustain me with a willing spirit. ✦ 13Then I will teach wrongdoers Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You. ✦ 14¶Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God, the God of my salvation; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness. ✦ 15Lord, open my lips, So that my mouth may declare Your praise. ✦ 16For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You do not take pleasure in burnt offering. ✦ 17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, God, You will not despise. ✦ 18¶By Your favor do good to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem. ✦ 19Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, In burnt offering and whole burnt offering; 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.

Resources, by level

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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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