Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Nathan's rebuke roused David from a spiritual torpor into which he had sunk for a long time. Seeing the magnitude of his guilt, he turns to God's infinite mercy as his only ground for hope, knowing he deserves multiplied condemnation and might justly be cast off forever.
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Commenting on Psalm 51:1-19
Make me to hear joy and gladness. He prays about his sorrow late in the Psalm; he began at once with his sin; he asks to hear pardon, and then to hear joy. He seeks comfort at the right time and from the right source.
Hyssop sprinkled water on the unclean to restore them. David prays the blood of Christ, applied by living faith, would cleanse him as surely as that ceremony cleansed the leper. If washed in that fountain, he shall be whiter than snow, not merely acquitted but accepted.
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Commenting on Psalm 51:7-13