Salmos 51
William Barclay · Citado em PreceptAustin
Salmos 51
Barclay writes that agalliao - is the joy which leaps for joy. As it has been put, it is the joy of the climber who has reached the summit, and who leaps for joy that the mountain path is conquered. Broken Bones Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice. —Psalm 51:8 Today's Scripture: Psalm 51:1-13 Years ago, I played collegiate soccer as a goalkeeper. It was more fun than I can describe here, but all that fun came at a hefty price—one I continue to pay today. Being a goalie means that you are constantly throwing your body into harm’s way to prevent the other team from scoring, often resulting in injuries. During the course of one season, I suffered a broken leg, several cracked ribs, a separated shoulder, and a concussion! Today, especially on cold days, I am visited by painful reminders of those broken bones. David also had reminders of broken bones, but his injuries were spiritual, not physical. After David’s moral collapse involving an affair with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband, God firmly disciplined him. But then David turned to Him in repentance and prayed, “Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice” (Ps. 51:8). God’s chastening was so crushing that David felt like his bones were broken. Yet he trusted that the God of grace could both repair his brokenness and rekindle his joy. In our own failure and sin, it’s a comfort to know that God loves us enough to pursue and restore us with His loving discipline. By: Bill Crowder Father, open my eyes to see my failings, open my heart to receive Your discipline, and open my will to embrace Your loving purposes. When I fall, I pray that You will make me whole and restore my joy in You. God’s hand of discipline is a hand of love. Repenting And Rejoicing - A Christian woman asked another believer how he was doing. With a broad smile he replied, “Repenting and rejoicing, sister!” I believe this man was walking in a spirit of repentance—daily confessing and turning from sins and rejoicing in God’s forgiveness. Because honest repentance involves sorrow, we may forget that repenting leads to rejoicing. When we first repent and become new believers, we experience great joy. But if we then choose to live with unconfessed sin, our joy is lost. David believed his joy could be restored. After pouring out his prayer of repentance to God, he made this humble plea: “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation” (Psalm 51:12). As David turned back to the Lord, his sense of purpose returned: “Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You” (Ps 51:13). Through his faith in a forgiving and merciful God, David began rejoicing again in his salvation (Ps 51:14, 15). When we confess our sins to God, We're washed as white as snow, And He keeps on forgiving us Each time to Him we go. —Sper Conviction makes us sad— confession makes us glad. MY BROKEN LEFT HIP MY BROKEN HEART As I was writing these notes God literally broke my left hip and almost immediately I recognized that what He wanted to do (was doing) was to break my heart. "Little sins" had begun to creep into my life so that I had slowly drifted from the intimate fellowship I once experienced with God. At age 65, He was saying to me in essence "I love you so much, that I am going to given you physical brokenness, that it might bring about spiritual brokenness." Twenty five years earlier He had given me severe arthritis in the same left hip in order to cause me to bow my knee to Him as my Lord and Savior. And now as I entered the last leg of my race, He struck a deeply painful blow to that same left hip, because He wanted to sanctify me. He does not want me to continue to "toy" with "little sins" but to confess them and to walk before Him in holiness, with a heart that is wholly His (cp 2Chr 16:9). This is June, 2011 and I am hearing His voice clearly now, but my greatest fear is that as I recuperate (which will take 90 more days at least to heal the left femoral head) and become physically stronger, I might begin to forget His kindness that has led me to this point of repentance (Ro 2:4-note), and that I might drift into complacency in my daily walk with Him. I pray not. I covet your prayers along that same line. Thank you. Psalm 51:9 Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities. BGT Psalm 50:11 ἀπόστρεψον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν μου καὶ πάσας τὰς ἀνομίας μου ἐξάλειψον LXE Psalm 51:9 Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. KJV Psalm 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. NET Psalm 51:9 Hide your face from my sins! Wipe away all my guilt! CSB Psalm 51:9 Turn Your face away from my sins and blot out all my guilt. ESV Psalm 51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. NIV Psalm 51:9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. NLT Psalm 51:9 Don't keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt. NRS Psalm 51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. NJB Psalm 51:9 Turn away your face from my sins, and wipe away all my guilt. NAB Psalm 51:11 Turn away your face from my sins; blot out all my guilt. YLT Psalm 51:9 Hide Thy face from my sin. And all mine iniquities blot out. GWN Psalm 51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and wipe out all that I have done wrong. BBE Psalm 51:9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins. RSV Psalm 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. NKJ Psalm 51:9 Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities. ASV Psalm 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities. DBY Psalm 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. BHT Psalm 51:11 hasTër PänÊkä mëHá†ä´äy wü|kol-`áwöºnötaºy müHË NIRV Psalm 51:9 Take away all of my sins. Wipe away all of the evil things I've done. RWB Psalm 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. WEB Psalm 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Hide: Isa 38:17 Jer 16:17 Mic 7:18,19 blot: Ps 51:1 Col 2:14 Hide Your face from my sins The idiom “to hide the face” can mean “to ignore” (see Ps 10:11; Ps 13:1; Ps 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “to reject” (Ps 27:9; Ps 30:7; Ps 88:14). Spurgeon…Hide thy face from my sins. Do not look at them; be at pains not to see them. They thrust themselves in the way; but, Lord, refuse to behold them, lest if thou consider them, thine anger burn, and I die. Hide Your face from my sins - Note David does not want God to hide his face from him but from his sins. In Psalm 27 David wrote… When Thou didst say, "Seek My face," my heart said to Thee, "Thy face, O LORD, I shall seek." Do not hide Thy face from me, Do not turn Thy servant away in anger; Thou hast been my help; Do not abandon me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation! (Ps 27:8, 9) Comment: Not only does God see us, we also see Him. That is what gives us integrity: knowing that we're walking, living, thinking and speaking before the face of God. When we fear Him, we don't have to fear anything else. And when we walk in integrity and honesty, when we flee duplicity and hypocrisy, we can face anything. David was able to face all his foes because he had integrity. He prayed, "Unite my heart to fear Your name" (Ps. 86:11). Integrity unites, so it helps us put our lives together. Today, let's walk in integrity before the face of God. Don't be so concerned with your reputation and conduct that you fail to look after your character, because you cannot hide that from God. How is your character? Are you unified--do you have one heart and one mind to serve one Master? (Warren Wiersbe. Prayer, Praise and Promises) After Cain murdered Abel, Cain said… "Behold, Thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Thy face I shall be hidden, and I shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and it will come about that whoever finds me will kill me." (Ge 4:14) And blot out all my iniquities David asked God to apply His divine spot remover to his sins. Spurgeon…Blot out all mine iniquities. He repeats the prayer of the first verse with the enlargement of it by the word "all." All repetitions are not "vain repetitions." Souls in agony have no space to find variety of language: pain has to content itself with monotones. David's face was ashamed with looking on his sin, and no diverting thoughts could remove it from his memory; but he prays the Lord to do with his sin what he himself cannot. If God hide not his face from our sin, he must hide it forever from us; and if he blot not out our sins, he must blot our names out of his book of life. Bob Roe - He seeks the ultimate of spiritual healing which is eyeball-to-eyeball with a Holy God with no sense of shame, and he knows there is no possibility in the law to have that kind of healing. That is one of the hardest thing to get across to people. I do not care what your sin is, if you truly confess it, you can look eyeball-to-eyeball with you God, "who is a Holy God who dwells in light unapproachable and who no man has seen or ever can see" and have no sense of shame. He really means it, my friends, when he says, "if you confess your sins [if you agree with God, that is what it says, if you justify God and not excuse yourself] he will not only forgive your sin, but he will cleanse you from all unrighteousness." A murderer, adulterer, hypocrite for over a year, a man who sent men to their death for the very thing he had done, who led worship while knowing he was hiding sin, if he confesses his sin, God says, "You can look me in the face, eyeball-to-eyeball. I will hide my face from your sins and blot out your iniquities." This is the figure used. It doesn't say God is going to forget them. God can't throw away his mind, but he can give you the ability to grasp what he has done in your life, and you can look eyeball-to-eyeball at him and have no sense of shame for what you have done. He expresses that cleansing here as blotting it out, hiding it from his face, or putting it behind his back in the depths of the sea. God again goes first class. When he forgives, he forgets [These are human terms] and from that point on there should never ever be any shame between you and God over a truly confessed sin no matter what it was. My sins… my iniquities - Again David owns his sin as we all must do. A W
Salmos 51:1-9
Barclay writes that agalliao - is the joy which leaps for joy. As it has been put, it is the joy of the climber who has reached the summit, and who leaps for joy that the mountain path is conquered. (Barclay, W: The New Daily Study Bible Westminster John Knox Press) What would bring joy and gladness? Clearly in context it would be God's forgiveness, which is worth "jumping for joy!" Wiersbe…David's ears were open to the music of heaven--but not in this psalm. David heard sorrow and sadness. The choir was off-key. Everything he heard was wrong. We, too, have days like that. When we are not right on the inside, nothing is going to be right on the outside. Charles Horne comments…Next to the blessing of forgiveness, is to be desired that joy and comfort in the conscience, which forgiveness only can inspire: the effect of this, in repairing the vigour of the spirit, decayed through sorrow and anguish, is compared to setting broken bones, and restoring them again to perfect strength. At the resurrection of the body, this petition will be granted in a literal sense, when the " bones" that are mouldered into dust, shall " rejoice and flourish as an herb." —Isa. Ixvi. 14 (Psalm 51 Commentary) ><>><>><> Repenting And Rejoicing - A Christian woman asked another believer how he was doing. With a broad smile he replied, “Repenting and rejoicing, sister!” I believe this man was walking in a spirit of repentance—daily confessing and turning from sins and rejoicing in God’s forgiveness. Because honest repentance involves sorrow, we may forget that repenting leads to rejoicing. When we first repent and become new believers, we experience great joy. But if we then choose to live with unconfessed sin, our joy is lost. David believed his joy could be restored. After pouring out his prayer of repentance to God, he made this humble plea: “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation” (Psalm 51:12). As David turned back to the Lord, his sense of purpose returned: “Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You” (Ps 51:13). Through his faith in a forgiving and merciful God, David began rejoicing again in his salvation (Ps 51:14, 15). When we confess our sins to God, We're washed as white as snow, And He keeps on forgiving us Each time to Him we go. —Sper Conviction makes us sad— confession makes us glad. Psalm 51: 9 Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities: (Hide: Isa 38:17 Jer 16:17 Mic 7:18,19)(blot: Ps 51:1 Col 2:14) Hide Your face from my sins - Note David does not want God to hide his face from him but from his sins. In Psalm 27 David wrote… When Thou didst say, "Seek My face," my heart said to Thee, "Thy face, O LORD, I shall seek." Do not hide Thy face from me, Do not turn Thy servant away in anger; Thou hast been my help; Do not abandon me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation! (Ps 27:8, 9) Comment: Not only does God see us, we also see Him. That is what gives us integrity: knowing that we're walking, living, thinking and speaking before the face of God. When we fear Him, we don't have to fear anything else. And when we walk in integrity and honesty, when we flee duplicity and hypocrisy, we can face anything. David was able to face all his foes because he had integrity. He prayed, "Unite my heart to fear Your name" (Ps. 86:11). Integrity unites, so it helps us put our lives together. Today, let's walk in integrity before the face of God. Don't be so concerned with your reputation and conduct that you fail to look after your character, because you cannot hide that from God. How is your character? Are you unified--do you have one heart and one mind to serve one Master? (Warren Wiersbe. Prayer, Praise and Promises) The idiom “to hide the face” can mean “to ignore” (see Ps 10:11; Ps 13:1; Ps 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “to reject” (Ps 27:9; Ps 30:7; Ps 88:14). After Cain murdered Abel, Cain said… "Behold, Thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Thy face I shall be hidden, and I shall be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and it will come about that whoever finds me will kill me." (Ge 4:140 Hide (imperative) (05641) (cathar) means to hide with the thought of protection, to hide by covering Blot out (imperative) (04229) (machah) (Also used in Ps 51:1) means to stroke or rub, erase, abolish, destroy, wipe out. (First use = Ge 6:7) The Septuagint (Lxx) translates machah with the verb exaleipho (word study) which means literally to completely wipe off as when a blackboard is erased. Some of the uses in Scripture retain the literal meaning but most uses speak of a figurative blotting out or wiping off. The idea in all the uses is to cause something to cease by obliterating or eliminating any evidence. A number of uses in both OT (Septuagint) and the NT use this verb to describe the blotting out or wiping away of sins. David asked God to apply His divine spot remover to his sins. Through the prophet Isaiah God says… I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins. (Isaiah 43:25) I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud, And your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you. (Isaiah 44:22) Comment: God is always willing and waiting to forgive sins, to purge iniquities, and to blot out transgressions. Ultimately He is waiting for us to cry out like David for forgiveness. David Jeremiah…Why blot? Most sins were handled in the manner of transactions. If you committed some offense, you could perform some kind of sacrifice to make atonement. But there were two sins with no remedy: adultery and murder. David had committed both of these, and they were written in God’s great book in red letters. There was nothing David could do, no sacrifice to make, no atonement to seek. The accusing page was beyond his reach. All he could do was fall upon the mercy of God to blot out that red ink. Wipe it away completely, Lord! No priest, of course, could do that. Only God had the solvent, then and now. (Slaying the giants in your life) My sins… my iniquities - Again David owns his sin as we all must do. A W