Psalms 51:9
\51:7\Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
In Context
10\51:8\Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;
Isaiah 1:18Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.
Micah 7:18Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:8-14
Penitential Petitions. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach… Read the whole commentary →