Psalms 51:10

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Create	בְּרָא be.ra'-	H1254	(absolutely) to create · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
clean	טָ֭הוֹר Ta.hor	H2889	pure (in a physical · adjective, masculine singular absolute
heart	לֵ֣ב lev	H3820	the heart · noun, common masculine singular absolute
God	אֱלֹהִ֑ים 'E.lo.Him	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural absolute
renew	חַדֵּ֥שׁ cha.Desh	H2318	to be new · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
right	נָ֝כ֗וֹן na.Khon	H3559	properly · verb, niphal active participle, masculine singular absolute
spirit	וְר֥וּחַ ve.Ru.ach	H7307	wind · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular absolute
within	בְּקִרְבִּֽי be.kir.Bi	H7130	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give th…
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Ephesians 4:22-24 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O…
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,…
Ezekiel 36:25-27 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:7-13

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; that is, pardon my sins, and let me know that they are pardoned, that I may be restored to those privileges which by sin I have forfeited and lost." The expression here alludes to a ceremonial distinction, that of cleansing the leper, or those that were unclean by the touch of a body by sprinkling water, or blood, or both upon them with a bunch of hyssop, by which they were, at length, discharged from…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 51:10

Create--a work of almighty power. in me--literally, "to me," or, "for me"; bestow as a gift, a heart free from taint of sin (Psa 24:4; Psa 73:1). renew--implies that he had possessed it; the essential principle of a new nature had not been lost, but its influence interrupted (Luk 22:32); for Psa 51:11 shows that he had not lost God's presence and Spirit (Sa1 16:13), though he had lost the "joy of his salvation" (Psa 51:12), for whose return he prays. right spirit--literally, "constant," "firm," not yielding to temptation.

John Gill on Psalms 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God,.... Which was now defiled with sin, and of which being convinced, he was led more and more to see the impurity of his heart and nature, from which all his evil actions flowed; and being sensible that he could not make his heart clean himself, and that this was the work of God, and a work which required creating power, he entreats it of him: for as the first work of conversion is no other than a creation, or a production of something new, which was not before; so the restoring of a backslider, as it goes by the same name, it requires the same power; and as the implantation of grace at first, and particularly of faith, is a work of almighty power; so the same…

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The Church Fathers

And that also which was said by the Lord unto Samuel, "I have found a man according to My heart," testified unto the purity of David's heart, and it is well known that simplicity is born of purity of heart. And again David himself asked in prayer, "Create in me a clean heart, O God."
— Philoxenus of Mabbug, 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 4 -- On Faith: First Discourse on Simplicity

We are then truly free when God ordereth our lives, that is, formeth and createth us not as men—this he hath already done—but also as good men, which he is now doing by his grace, that we may indeed be new creatures in Christ Jesus. Accordingly, the prayer: "Create in me a clean heart, O God." This does not mean, as far as the natural human heart is concerned, that God hath not already created this.
— Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion 9:31

We shall now examine what kinds of ideas about the Spirit we hold in common, as well as those that we have gathered from the Scriptures or received from the unwritten tradition of the Fathers. First of all, who can listen to the Spirit's titles and not be lifted up in his soul? Whose thoughts would not be raised to contemplate the supreme nature? He is called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, right Spirit, willing Spirit. His first and most proper title is Holy Spirit, a name most especially appropriate to everything that is incorporeal, purely immaterial and indivisible.
— Basil of Caesarea, ON THE HOLY SPIRIT 9:22

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Heart — According to the Bible, the heart is the centre not only of spiritual activity, but of all the operations of human life. “Heart” and “soul” are often used interchangeably (Deut. 6:5; 26:16; comp.…
Cleanliness · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE
Conscience · GUILTY — GUILTY
Conviction · OF SIN — OF SIN
Creation · Illustrative of: Daily renewal of saints — Illustrative of: Daily renewal of saints
Desire · SPIRITUAL — SPIRITUAL
Heart · RENEWED — RENEWED
Heart, The · God: Creates a new — God: Creates a new
Homicide · DAVID’S REPENTANCE FOR, AND CONFESSION OF, THE MUR — DAVID’S REPENTANCE FOR, AND CONFESSION OF, THE MUR
Regeneration · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Remorse · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Righteousness · Saints: Pray for the spirit of — Saints: Pray for the spirit of

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 51:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:7-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 51:10

John Gill on Psalms 51:10

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 51:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:7-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 51:10

John Gill on Psalms 51:10

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Psalms 51:10-12

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 51:10-11

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 51:10-12

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 51:10