Psalms 51:14

"Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you."

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes God's role in teaching and guiding those who have strayed, promising that through His instruction, sinners will turn back to Him. It highlights the transformative power of divine guidance in leading transgressors to repentance and reconciliation with God.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God -Margin, as in Hebrew, “bloods.” So it is rendered by the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate. Luther renders it “blood-guilt.” DeWette, “from blood.” CompareIsaiah 4:4. The “plural” form - “bloods” - is used probably to mark “intensity,” or to denote “great” guilt. The allusion is to the guilt of shedding blood, or taking life (compareGenesis 9:5-6), and the reference is undoubtedly to his guilt in causing Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, to be slain.2 Samuel 11:14-17. It was this which weighed upon his conscience, and filled him with alarm. The guilt of this he prayed might be taken away, that he might have peace.

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