A Forgiving God Who Restores our Joy
(Psalm 51)
Psalm 51
contains such a heart-wrenching, hope-building, joy-restoring, expression of
prayer to God, that everyone would benefit from taking a journey through these
words of life (no matter how many days it takes to do so). Here is a way to get
your thoughts focused on what David wrote regarding his own brokenhearted
situation many years ago, and how God continues to use these very words to help
the brokenhearted approach him today.
I encourage
you to begin with the two thoughts that follow each section. Watch for other
questions and answers that come up, and consider starting a journal to follow prayerfully
where God leads. If you would like a word-processor (.rtf) copy of this study
to give room to expand each verse with your own considerations, click on the
link below.[1]
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me:
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2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
and cleanse me from my sin!
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
and my sin is ever before me.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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6 Behold, you delight in truth in the
inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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9 Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
and blot out all my iniquities.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
and renew a right spirit within me.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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11 Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
and sinners will return to you.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
and my mouth will declare your praise.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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17 The sacrifices of God are a
broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
build up the walls of Jerusalem;
build up the walls of Jerusalem;
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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19 then will you delight in right
sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Meaning to David: _________________________________________________
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Application to me: _________________________________________________
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© 2015 Monte Vigh ~ Box 517,
Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
Scriptures are from the
English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright ©
2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.)
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