Psalms 51:7
Purge me with hyssope, and I shalbe cleane: wash me, and I shalbe whiter then snowe.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 heare ioye and gladnes, that the bones, which thou hast broken, may reioyce.
Cross References
Exodus 12:22And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basen, and strike the lintell, and the doore cheekes with the blood that is in the basen, and let none of you goe out at the doore of his house, vntill the morning.
Leviticus 14:49Then shall he take to purifie the house, two sparrowes, and cedar wood, and skarlet lace, and hyssope.
Job 14:4Who can bring a cleane thing out of filthinesse? there is not one.
Isaiah 1:18Come nowe, and let vs reason together, sayth the Lord: though your sinnes were as crimsin, they shalbe made white as snowe: though they were red like skarlet, they shalbe as wooll.
Ephesians 5:26That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,
Hebrews 9:19For when Moses had spoken euery precept to the people, according to the Law, he tooke the blood of calues and of goates, with water and purple wooll and hyssope, and sprinckled both the booke, 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 →