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Psalm 51:10 KJV
Psalms · chapter 51 · verse 10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.Psalm 51:10 · King James Version
What Psalm 51:10 means
Create is the word Genesis uses for making something out of nothing. David isn't asking for a cleanup after Bathsheba and Uriah. He is asking for a heart he doesn't have and can't produce. Renew a right spirit admits the same thing twice: the work has to come from outside him.
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Psalm 51:10 in context
8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Commentary
Cross references
- Ezekiel 11:19
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
- Ephesians 4:22-24
- Matthew 5:8
- Ezekiel 18:31
- Romans 12:2
- Ezekiel 36:25-27
- Acts 15:9
Key words (Strong's)
- Createbârâʼto createH1254 →
- spiritrûwachwindH7307 →
- cleanṭâhôwrpureH2889 →
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
- renewchâdashto be newH2318 →
- rightkûwnproperly, to be erectH3559 →
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I. See here what David prays for. Many excellent petitions he here puts up, to which if we do but add, "for Christ's sake," they are as evangelical as any other. 1. He prays that God would cleanse him from his sins and the defilement he had contracted by them (Psa 51:7): "Purge me with hyssop;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-13