Psalms 51:7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
In Context
8Make me to hear gladness and joy; [that] the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Cross References
Exodus 12:22And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that is in the bason, and smear the lintel and the two door-posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
Leviticus 14:49And he shall take, to purge the house from the defilement, two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop;
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!
Isaiah 1:18Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Ephesians 5:26in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [it] by the washing of water by [the] word,
Hebrews 9:19For every commandment having been spoken according to [the] law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:2-7
Penitential Petitions. 1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my… Read the whole commentary →