Psalms 51:2
Make me pure from the wrong things that I have done; make me clean from the guilt of my sin.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
In Context
3I say that because I know the ways that I have disobeyed you; I cannot forget them.
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:4Then David sent more messengers to get her. They brought her to David, and he ◄slept/had sex► [EUP] with her. (She had just finished performing the rituals to make herself pure after her monthly menstrual period.) Then Bathsheba went back home.
Psalms 19:12But there is no one who can know all his errors [RHQ]; so Yahweh, forgive me for these things which I do that I do not realize are wrong.
Isaiah 1:16Cleanse your inner beings, and become spiritually clean! Stop your evil behavior! Stop doing things that are wrong!
Ezekiel 36:25It will be as though [MET] I will sprinkle clean water on you, and then you will be clean. I will cause you to be cleansed from everything that has defiled you, and I will cause you to stop worshiping idols.
John 13:9So Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, in that case, do not wash only my feet. Wash my hands and my head, too!”
1 Corinthians 6:11Some of you previously did things like that. But God has freed/cleansed you [MET] from your sinful behavior. He has set you apart for himself. He has erased the record of your sins because you trusted [MTY] in the Lord Jesus Christ and because of what the Spirit of our God has done for you.
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 →