Psalm 51

05/17/2017 21:27

Meditation Verse
 
Scripture.  Behold, Thou desirest Truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part Thou shall make me to know Wisdom. Psalm 51:6  KJV
 
King David wrote this verse (from Chapter Fifty-one) after the Prophet Nathan had convicted him of his sin with Bathsheba. 
 
The prophet Nathan with his words, broke the hold that sin had on him and David realized he needed to repent and he asked for God's Mercy.
 
David admits he is a sinner from when he was shaped inside the womb. 
 
He asks to be purged and to be forgiven.
 
We can use this whole chapter as a prayer to God. 
 
The words help us to acknowledge our state before God and how sin is abhorrent to God, how He can never accept sin.
 
It will help us to ask for forgiveness and purging of the sin in our life. 
 
King David understood that he had the right to ask God for these things. He was a learned man of the Scriptures and had a personal relationship with God.
 
It is so beautifully written and the Spirit has included it as one worthy of us singing, praying aloud to God, and meditating upon, for our growth in Godly matters and for Godly Wisdom.
 
Prayer
Lord, thank You that You have shown us the way to ask for forgiveness. Help me to keep this Psalm 51 of David in my heart, and use the words to learn how to pray to You.  Amen.
 

Psalm 51King James Version (KJV)

51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight: that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest.

5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6 Behold, Thou desirest Truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know Wisdom.

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice.

9 Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and uphold me with Thy Free Spirit.

13 Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto Thee.

14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, Thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of Thy Righteousness.

15 O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth Thy praise.

16 For Thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering.

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

18 Do Good in Thy Good Pleasure unto Zion: build Thou the walls of Jerusalem.

19 Then shalt Thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon Thine altar.

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