Psalms 51:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Psalms 51:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 63:3-5
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. …
Hebrews 13:15
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
Psalms 9:14
That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
Ezekiel 29:21
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Psalms 119:13
With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-19)

I. David prays against the guilt of sin, and prays for the grace of God, enforcing both petitions from a plea taken from the glory of God, which he promises with thankfulness to show forth. 1. He prays against the guilt of sin, that he might be delivered from that, and promises that then he would praise God, Ps. 51:14. The particular sin he prays against is blood-guiltiness, the sin he had now bee…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. open ... lips--by removing my sense of guilt.