Psalms 51:10-12 Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean, scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don’t look too close for blemishes, Create in me a clean heart, O God; And (2024)

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What is the meaning of psalm 51:10-12? ›

Beyond healing and cleansing, David sees that he needs an entirely new heart. His old heart leads him astray. He prays that God would not take away the Holy Spirit from him. His desire is to fully lean on God's lead in his life, to restore him to joy in walking in His presence.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

Psalms 51:7-19 New International Version (NIV)

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

It has been said that sin "causes the cup of joy to spring a leak." It certainly drained David's cup of joy. He urgently asked God to restore the joy of his salvation. Adultery and murder had caused David to lose his joy and become depressed. Only God could restore the lost joy.

Let me suggest that hands are made clean through the process of putting off the natural man and by overcoming sin and the evil influences in our lives through the Savior's Atonement. Hearts are purified as we receive His strengthening power to do good and become better.

The hyssop plant symbolizes the chance God offers us to be washed clean of sin. It's also a reminder that He uses everything, including our missteps and mistakes, for our good.

In this Psalm, David confesses his sins to God, holding back nothing. David does not blame anyone for his errors and makes no attempt to excuse his actions. These words display absolute humility and anguish over sin. David appeals to God's mercy and love, knowing that he can be forgiven.

For centuries hyssop has been strongly associated with ritual and medical cleansing. In the Old Testament hyssop was used to sprinkle blood as part of the Jewish Passover.

You see, Psalm 51 shows us how we can tell God that we are truly sorry for whatever we've done wrong. It provides a great example of an honest and heartfelt prayer of confession. It's a great guide on how to 'get right' with God after we have gone astray.

Psalm 51 is David's prayer of repentance and his request for mercy following his sin with Bathsheba and the death of Uriah. As you read consider taking notes using these categories: What does this Psalm teach us about sin and the nature of sin?

How many wives did David have in the Bible? ›

8 wives: 18+ children, including: According to Jewish works such as the Seder Olam Rabbah, Seder Olam Zutta, and Sefer ha-Qabbalah (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE.

Jesus answered, "A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you." For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.

Then the blood of Jesus, God's Son, cleanses us from every sin. If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.

God not only erases our sin debt, He destroys the document on which our debt was recorded by nailing it to the cross. We are forgiven because of the cross of Jesus.

Psalm 51:10-12: "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.

When we sin and desire forgiveness, a broken heart and a contrite spirit mean to experience “godly sorrow [that] worketh repentance” (2 Corinthians 7:10). This comes when our desire to be cleansed from sin is so consuming that our hearts ache with sorrow and we yearn to feel at peace with our Father in Heaven.

Psalm 51 is classified as an individual lament in which a single voice cries out to God for deliverance from a life-threatening situation. In the case of Psalm 51, the life-threatening situation is King David's guilt over the taking of Bathsheba.

That's what we need to be about as well. Zeal for your house will consume me. Finally, we come to our last point, the last phrase of this quote – will consume me. We've been taking this to mean that Jesus' passion and fury so consumed Him that it oozed out of Him with a burning passion.