Psalm 51:7
New International Version
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

New Living Translation
Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

English Standard Version
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Berean Standard Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

King James Bible
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

New King James Version
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

New American Standard Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; Cleanse me, and I will be whiter than snow.

NASB 1995
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

NASB 1977
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Legacy Standard Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Amplified Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Christian Standard Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

American Standard Version
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Sprinkle me with hyssop and I am pure; wash me in it and I shall be whiter than snow.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

Contemporary English Version
Wash me with hyssop until I am clean and whiter than snow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

English Revised Version
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Purify me from sin with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Good News Translation
Remove my sin, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

International Standard Version
Purge me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Literal Standard Version
You cleanse me with hyssop and I am clean, | Wash me, and I am whiter than snow.

Majority Standard Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

New American Bible
Cleanse me with hyssop, that I may be pure; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

NET Bible
Sprinkle me with water and I will be pure; wash me and I will be whiter than snow.

New Revised Standard Version
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

New Heart English Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Webster's Bible Translation
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

World English Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
6Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. 7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.…

Cross References
John 13:8
"Never shall You wash my feet!" Peter told Him. Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me."

Hebrews 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,

Exodus 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.

Leviticus 14:4
the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.

Leviticus 14:6
And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.

Leviticus 14:51
Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

Numbers 19:18
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.


Treasury of Scripture

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Purge

Leviticus 14:4-7,49-52
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: …

Numbers 19:18-20
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: …

Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

and

Hebrews 9:13,14
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: …

1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

whiter

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Ephesians 5:26,27
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, …

Revelation 7:13,14
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? …

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Psalm 51
1. David prays for remission of sins, whereof he makes a deep confession
6. He prays for sanctification
16. God delights not in sacrifice, but in sincerity
18. He prays for the church














(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.)

Verse 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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Purify
תְּחַטְּאֵ֣נִי (tə·ḥaṭ·ṭə·’ê·nî)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 2398: To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn

me with hyssop,
בְאֵז֣וֹב (ḇə·’ê·zō·wḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 231: Hyssop

and I will be clean;
וְאֶטְהָ֑ר (wə·’eṭ·hār)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2891: To be clean or pure

wash me,
תְּ֝כַבְּסֵ֗נִי (tə·ḵab·bə·sê·nî)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 3526: To trample, to wash

and I will be whiter
אַלְבִּֽין׃ (’al·bîn)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3835: To be, white, to make bricks

than snow.
וּמִשֶּׁ֥לֶג (ū·miš·še·leḡ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7950: Snow


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