Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
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
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Salvation he had known, and had known it as the Lord's own; he had also felt the joy which arises from being saved in the Lord, but he had lost it for a while, and therefore he longed for its restoration.
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