Psalms 51:7
Purge me with hyssop, until I be clean; Wash me, until I be whiter than snow!
Noyes Bible
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
6Behold! thou desirest truth in the heart; So teach me wisdom in my inmost soul!
8Make me to hear joy and gladness, So that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice!
Cross References
Job 14:4Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean? Not one.
Isaiah 1:18Come, now, and let us argue together, saith Jehovah. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they be red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
Ephesians 5:26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of the water in the word;
Hebrews 9:19For when Moses had spoken every precept according to the Law to all the people, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and 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 →