Psalms Chapter 51 verse 7 Holy Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
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Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
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Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter.
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Psalms 51 : 7 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. "Hyssop" alone could by the Levitical Law cleanse from contact with a corpse (Numbers 19:18) or from the defilement of leprosy (Leviticus 14:4). David recognizes that his impurity is of the extremest kind, and needs the remedy which has the greatest purifying power. Legally, this was the hyssop, with its "blood of sprinkling" (Leviticus 14:6, 7); spiritually, it was the blood of Christ, which was thus symbolized. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Again the word is used which corresponds to the Greek πλῦνον. "Wash me as garments are washed by the fuller" (see the comment on ver. 2).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Hyssop.--The mention of this connects this verse with the priestly ordinances concerning leprosy and contact with a dead body (Leviticus 14; Numbers 19); but generally it is a repetition of the former prayer to have the breach made in the covenant - relationship healed. (Comp. Isaiah 1:18.)
