Psalms 51:10

"Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities."

Key Reflection

In Psalm 51:10, David pleads for God to forgive his sins completely by concealing them from His sight and erasing their record. This prayer expresses a deep longing for divine mercy and restoration, acknowledging that his transgressions stand in the way of his relationship with God.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Create in me a clean heart, O God -The word rendered “create,”בראberâ'- is a word which is properly employed to denote an act of “creation;” that is, of causing something to exist where there was nothing before. It is the word which is used inGenesis 1:1: “In the beginning God “created” the heaven and the earth,” and which is commonly used to express the act of creation. It is used “here” evidently in the sense of causing that to exist which did not exist before; and there is clearly a recognition of the divine “power,” or a feeling on the part of David that this could be done by God alone.

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