Psalm 51:15 Parallel Translations
NASB: O Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare Your praise. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will tell about your praise.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
ASV: O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
BBE: O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.
DBY: Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
ERV: O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
JPS: O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall declare Thy praise.
WBS: O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
WEB: Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
YLT: O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.
Psalm 51:15 Cross References
XREF:Exodus 4:15 "You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what you are to do.

Psalm 9:14 That I may tell of all Your praises, That in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 51:15 O Lord, {n} open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
(n) By giving me opportunity to praise you, when you will forgive my sins.
WES: 51:15 My lips - Which are shut with shame and grief.
MHC: 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?
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