Psalm 51:8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

English Standard Version
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

New American Standard Bible
Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

King James Bible
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

International Standard Version
Let me know joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

American Standard Version
Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Darby Bible Translation
Make me to hear gladness and joy; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

Psalm 35:10
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like to you, which deliver the poor from him that is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?

Psalm 44:19
Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Isaiah 35:10
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night will you make an end of me.

Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

Joel 1:16
Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

51:7-15 Purge me with hyssop, with the blood of Christ applied to my soul by a lively faith, as the water of purification was sprinkled with a bunch of hyssop. The blood of Christ is called the blood of sprinkling, Heb 12:24. If this blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin, cleanse us from our sin, then we shall be clean indeed, Heb 10:2. He asks not to be comforted, till he is first cleansed; if sin, the bitter root of sorrow, be taken away, he can pray in faith, Let me have a well-grounded peace, of thy creating, so that the bones broken by convictions may rejoice, may be comforted. Hide thy face from my sins; blot out all mine iniquities out of thy book; blot them out, as a cloud is blotted out and dispelled by the beams of the sun. And the believer desires renewal to holiness as much as the joy of salvation. David now saw, more than ever, what an unclean heart he had, and sadly laments it; but he sees it is not in his own power to amend it, and therefore begs God would create in him a clean heart. When the sinner feels this change is necessary, and reads the promise of God to that purpose, he begins to ask it. He knew he had by his sin grieved the Holy Spirit, and provoked him to withdraw. This he dreads more than anything. He prays that Divine comforts may be restored to him. When we give ourselves cause to doubt our interest in salvation, how can we expect the joy of it? This had made him weak; he prays, I am ready to fall, either into sin or into despair, therefore uphold me with thy Spirit. Thy Spirit is a free Spirit, a free Agent himself, working freely. And the more cheerful we are in our duty, the more constant we shall be to it. What is this but the liberty wherewith Christ makes his people free, which is contrasted with the yoke of bondage? Ga 5:1. It is the Spirit of adoption spoken to the heart. Those to whom God is the God of salvation, he will deliver from guilt; for the salvation he is the God of, is salvation from sin. We may therefore plead with him, Lord, thou art the God of my salvation, therefore deliver me from the dominion of sin. And when the lips are opened, what should they speak but the praises of God for his forgiving mercy?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. Make … joy—by forgiving me, which will change distress to joy.