![]() ![]() Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise. Psalm 51:10-15 - "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. ![]() Notable songs were written by Green and/or his wife, Melody Green, include "Your Love Broke Through", "Make My Life A Prayer to You", "Asleep In The Light", and "The Prodigal Son Suite", as well as the popular modern hymns "O Lord, You're Beautiful" and "There Is A Redeemer". Green is best known for his strong devotion to Christianity and his unwavering efforts to stir others to the same. Read Psalms (NCV) Read Psalms 51:7 (NCV) in Parallel New International Readers Version for Psalms 51:7 7 Make me pure by sprinkling me with hyssop plant. The prayer is, that he might be made "entirely" clean that there might be no remaining pollution in his soul.The Story Behind Create In Me A Clean Heart, Oh GodĪccording to , Keith Gordon Green was an American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist originally from Sheepshead Bay, New York. See the notes at Isaiah 1:16.Īnd I shall be whiter than snow - See the notes at Isaiah 1:18. Sin is represented as "defiling," and the idea of "washing" it away is often employed in the Scriptures. Luther has rendered it with great force - Entsundige mich mit Ysop - "Unsin me with hyssop." The idea was that the sin was to be removed or taken away, so that he might be free from it, or that "that" might be accomplished which was represented by the sprinkling with hyssop, and that the soul might be made pure. Here it conveys the notion of cleansing from sin "by" a sacred rite, or by that which was signified by a sacred rite. The word rendered "purge" is from the word חטא châṭâ' - which means "to sin." In the Piel form it means to bear the blame (or "loss") for anything and then to "atone for, to make atonement, to expiate:" Genesis 31:39 Leviticus 6:26 Numbers 19:19. The whole structure of the psalm implies that he was seeking an "internal" change, and that he did not depend on any mere outward ordinance or rite. Gesenius, "Lexicon" The idea of the psalmist here evidently is not that the mere sprinkling with hyssop would make him clean but he prays for that cleansing of which the sprinkling with hyssop was an emblem, or which was designed to be represented by that. Under this name the Hebrews seem to have comprised not only the common "hyssop" of the shops, but also other aromatic plants, as mint, wild marjoram, etc. The plant or herb was much used by the Hebrews in their sacred purifications and sprinklings: Exodus 12:22 Leviticus 14:4, Leviticus 14:6,Leviticus 14:49, Leviticus 14:51 1 Kings 4:33. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean - On the word hyssop, see the notes at John 19:29 notes at Hebrews 9:19. This David seems to have full in view hence he requests the Lord to make the sin-offering for him, and to show to the people that he had accepted him, and cleansed him from his sin. But it is worthy of remark that this ceremony was not performed till the plague of the leprosy had been healed in the leper (Leviticus 14:3) and the ceremony above mentioned was for the purpose of declaring to the people that the man was healed, that he might be restored to his place in society, having been healed of a disease that the finger of God alone could remove. The priest took two clean birds, cedar-wood, scarlet, and hyssop one of the birds was killed and the living bird, with the scarlet, cedar, and hyssop, dipped in the blood of the bird that had been killed, and then sprinkled over the person who had been infected. Purge me with hyssop - תחטאני techatteeni, "thou shalt make a sin-offering for me " probably alluding to the cleansing of the leper: Leviticus 14:1, etc.
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