Psalms 51:7
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
World English 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, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
8Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
Cross References
Exodus 12:22You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
Leviticus 14:49To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Isaiah 1:18“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Ephesians 5:26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Hebrews 9:19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and 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 →