PSALM Fifty One

For the director of music. 

A psalm of David. When  the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.

1 

Have mercy on me, O God,

    according to your unfailing love;

according to your great compassion

    blot out my transgressions.

2 

Wash away all my iniquity

    and cleanse me from my sin.

3 

For I know my transgressions,

    and my sin is always before me.

4 

Against you, you only, have I sinned

    and done what is evil in your sight;

so you are right in your verdict

    and justified when you judge.

5 

Surely I was sinful at birth,

    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

6 

Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;

    you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

7 

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;

    wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 

Let me hear joy and gladness;

    let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

9 

Hide your face from my sins

    and blot out all my iniquity.

10 

Create in me a pure heart, O God,

    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

11 

Do not cast me from your presence

    or take your Holy Spirit from me.

12 

Restore to me the joy of your salvation

    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

13 

Then I will teach transgressors your ways,

    so that sinners will turn back to you.

14 

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,

    you who are God my Saviour,

    and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

15 

Open my lips, Lord,

    and my mouth will declare your praise.

16 

You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;

    you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

17 

My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;

    a broken and contrite heart

    you, God, will not despise.

18 

May it please you to prosper Zion,

    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

19 

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,

    in burnt offerings offered whole;

    then bulls will be offered on your altar.

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READING 

Psalm Fifty One

Read by David Suchet

OVERVIEWS

Psalms - Overviews

(The Bible Project)

The Book of Psalms

(The Bible Project)

STUDY - LINKS

How Should You Read the Psalms?

- John Piper - 

Prayer in the Psalms: 

Discovering How to Pray

Timothy Keller 

Psalm 51 | Create in Me a Clean Heart |

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Psalms part 1 

-Study by David Pawson-

https://youtu.be/qB3QV713xm0

Psalms Part 2 

-Study by David Pawson

https://youtu.be/hQJNMgIHVKwSONGS

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https://www.youtube.com/@ligonier/search?query=psalm 51

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Psalm 51 - Ian WHITE

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PSALM Fifty

A psalm of Asaph. 

1 

The Mighty One, God, the Lord,

    speaks and summons the earth

    from the rising of the sun to where it sets.

2 

From Zion, perfect in beauty,

    God shines forth.

3 

Our God comes

    and will not be silent;

a fire devours before him,

    and around him a tempest rages.

4 

He summons the heavens above,

    and the earth, that he may judge his people:

5 

‘Gather to me this consecrated people,

    who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.’

6 

And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,

    for he is a God of justice.

7 

‘Listen, my people, and I will speak;

    I will testify against you, Israel:

    I am God, your God.

8 

I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices

    or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.

9 

I have no need of a bull from your stall

    or of goats from your pens,

10 

for every animal of the forest is mine,

    and the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 

I know every bird in the mountains,

    and the insects in the fields are mine.

12 

If I were hungry I would not tell you,

    for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

13 

Do I eat the flesh of bulls

    or drink the blood of goats?

14 

‘Sacrifice thank-offerings to God,

    fulfil your vows to the Most High,

15 

and call on me in the day of trouble;

    I will deliver you, and you will honour me.’

16 But to the wicked person, God says:

‘What right have you to recite my laws

    or take my covenant on your lips?

17 

You hate my instruction

    and cast my words behind you.

18 

When you see a thief, you join with him;

    you throw in your lot with adulterers.

19 

You use your mouth for evil

    and harness your tongue to deceit.

20 

You sit and testify against your brother

    and slander your own mother’s son.

21 

When you did these things and I kept silent,

    you thought I was exactly like you.

But I now arraign you

    and set my accusations before you.

22 

‘Consider this, you who forget God,

    or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

23 

those who sacrifice thank-offerings honour me,

    and to the blameless I will show my salvation.’

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READING 

Psalm Fifty

Read by David Suchet

OVERVIEWS

Psalms - Overviews

(The Bible Project)

The Book of Psalms

(The Bible Project)

STUDY - LINKS

How Should You Read the Psalms?

- John Piper - 

Prayer in the Psalms: 

Discovering How to Pray

Timothy Keller 

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Psalms part 1 

-Study by David Pawson-

https://youtu.be/qB3QV713xm0

Psalms Part 2 

-Study by David Pawson

https://youtu.be/hQJNMgIHVKwSONGS

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