Wash me thoroughly from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51:2 NASB Guilt/ sin – “This time I will praise the Lord.” So said Leah (Genesis 29:35) on the birth of Judah. But “praise” isn’t the only derivative of this Hebrew word, yādâ. It can also mean “confess, give thanks.” It is the…
Wash me thoroughly from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51:2 NASB Guilt/ sin – Jonathan Sacks makes a very important point about guilt. Do you remember? “. . . Judaism is overwhelmingly a guilt rather than a shame culture. Shame attaches to the person. Guilt attaches to the act. . . In…
Wash me thoroughly from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51:2 NASB Wash/ cleanse – David employs two verbs in this verse. They don’t mean the same thing. The first, translated “wash,” is kābaš. “This root occurs fifty-one times, all in verbal forms. Of these, all but nine appear in the Pentateuch, thirty-one…
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51:2 NASB Wash – Clean clothes! Not clean body. Let’s be sure we appreciate the difference. Kabas is the Hebrew verb for “to wash, to be washed, to perform the work of the fuller,” that is, to launder clothing in cold water…
