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Psalms 51

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins. ✦ 2Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. ✦ 3For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night. ✦ 4Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just. ✦ 5For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me. ✦ 6But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there. ✦ 7Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. ✦ 8Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me— now let me rejoice. ✦ 9Don’t keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt. ✦ 10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me. ✦ 11Do not banish me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. ✦ 12Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you. ✦ 13Then I will teach your ways to rebels, and they will return to you. ✦ 14Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves; then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness. ✦ 15Unseal my lips, O Lord, that my mouth may praise you. ✦ 16You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one. You do not want a burnt offering. ✦ 17The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God. ✦ 18Look with favor on Zion and help her; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. ✦ 19Then you will be pleased with sacrifices offered in the right spirit— with burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings. Then bulls will again be sacrificed 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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