Psalms 51:7
5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
6 Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- KJV
- Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- WEB
- Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- ASV
- Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- DARBY
- Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- BLB
- Cleanse my sin with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- ÅB
- Rens meg fra synd med isop så jeg blir ren, vask meg så jeg blir hvitere enn snø!
- OTB
- Rens meg med isop, så jeg blir ren;
Vask meg, så jeg blir hvitere enn snø. - B1930
- Rens mig fra synd med isop så jeg blir ren, tvett mig så jeg blir hvitere enn sne!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:18
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
Read in contextHebrews 9:13–14
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
Read in contextNumbers 19:18–20
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
Read in contextHebrews 9:19
For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
Read in contextRevelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
Read in contextExodus 12:22
Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
Read in contextEphesians 5:26–27
to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
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