the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 51:11
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Do not cast me away from Your presenceAnd do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy spirite from me.
Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not the spirit of thy holiness from me.
Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Do not cast me out from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Don't push me away or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.
Cast mee not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy Spirit from me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Cast me not awaie from thy presence, and take not thy holy sprete fro me.
Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy Spirit from me.
Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.
Don't cast me away from your presence; And don't take your holy Spirit from me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Do not reject me! Do not take your Holy Spirit away from me!
Don't chase me away from you or take your Holy Spirit away from me.
Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all my crimes.
Cast mee not away from thy presence, and take not thine holy Spirit from me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.
Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Do not throw me away from where You are. And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and remove not thy holy Spirit from me.
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.
Do not cast me away from thy presence, And, thy Holy Spirit, do not take from me:
(50-13) Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Do not send me away from you or take your Holy Spirit away from me.
Do not banish me from your presence; do not take your holy spirit away from me.
Do not banish me from Your presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Caste thou me not awei fro thi face; and take thou not awei fro me thin hooli spirit.
Cast me not forth from Thy presence, And Thy Holy Spirit take not from me.
Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Cast: Psalms 43:2, Psalms 71:9, Psalms 71:18, Genesis 4:14, 2 Kings 13:23, 2 Kings 17:18-23, 2 Kings 23:27, 2 Thessalonians 1:9
take: Genesis 6:3, Judges 13:25, Judges 15:14, Judges 16:20, 1 Samuel 10:10, 1 Samuel 16:14, 2 Samuel 7:15, Isaiah 63:10, Isaiah 63:11
holy: Luke 11:13, John 14:26, Romans 1:4, Romans 8:9, Ephesians 4:30
Reciprocal: Leviticus 22:3 - from my Judges 3:10 - the Spirit Judges 6:34 - the Spirit 1 Samuel 18:12 - departed 1 Samuel 28:15 - God 2 Chronicles 32:31 - left him Psalms 27:9 - put Psalms 66:20 - General Psalms 119:8 - O forsake Jeremiah 14:21 - not abhor Jeremiah 23:39 - cast Haggai 2:5 - so 1 Thessalonians 5:19 - the Spirit
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Cast me not away from thy presence,.... As abominable; as a vessel in which he had no pleasure; with indignation and wrath; as one that is angry with another, cannot bear him in his sight, but bids him be gone from him. Nothing is more desirable to a child of God than the presence of God; and nothing gives him more sensible pain than his absence; and even to be deprived of or denied the means of enjoying his presence the word and ordinances, makes them very uneasy: to be utterly, and for ever deprived of it, is the case of the damned in hell, and is the punishment of loss they sustain; and, on the other hand, the happiness of the saints in heaven is to enjoy it without interruption. The people of God are never cast away from his favour, or out of his heart's love; but they may for a while be without his gracious presence, or not see his face, nor have the light of his countenance, nor sensible communion with him, which is here deprecated. David might call to mind the case of Cain, Genesis 4:14; or rather the more recent one of Saul, whom the Lord rejected, and from whom he departed upon his sinning, and which he might fear would be his case,
1 Samuel 28:15;
and take not thy Holy Spirit from me; or "the Spirit of thine holiness"; the third Person in the Trinity; so called, not because this epithet of "holy" is peculiar to him; for it is used also of the Father, and of the Son, John 17:11; but because he is equally holy with them, and is the author of holiness in his people, which is therefore called the sanctification of the Spirit, 1 Peter 1:2; and without whom David knew that purity and holiness of heart and spirit he had desired could not be renewed and increased in him; and therefore deprecates the taking of him away; which shows that he was not as yet removed from him, not with standing he had fallen into great sins; and his sense of sin, and confession of it, and his fervent application for pardoning grace, and purity of heart, abundantly prove it. The Spirit of God is a gift of his, which is without repentance, and where he once is as a spirit of regeneration and sanctification, he ever abides: his external gifts may be taken away; but internal grace is an incorruptible seed, and always continues. By sin the Spirit of God may be grieved, so as to withdraw his gracious influences, and his powerful operations may not be felt; and this is what is here deprecated. The Targum interprets this of the spirit of prophecy which David had, by which he composed psalms and songs prophetic of Christ, and of Gospel times, and which was not taken away from him; see 2 Samuel 23:1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Cast me not away from thy presence - That is, Do not reject me, or cast me off entirely; do not abandon me; do not leave me in my sin and sorrow. The language is derived from the idea that true happiness is to be found in the “presence” of God, and that to be exiled from him is misery. Compare Psalms 16:11, note; Psalms 31:20, note. See also Psalms 140:13.
And take not thy holy Spirit from me - It is not certain that David understood by the phrase “thy Holy Spirit” precisely what is now denoted by it as referring to the third person of the Trinity. The language, as used by him, would denote some influence coming from God producing holiness, “as if” God breathed his own spirit, or his own self, into the soul. The language, however, is appropriate to be used in the higher and more definite sense in which it is now employed, as denoting that sacred Spirit - the Holy Spirit - by whom the heart is renewed, and by whom comfort is imparted to the soul. It is not necessary to suppose that the inspired writers of the Old Testament had a full and complete comprehension of the meaning of the words which they employed, or that they appreciated all that their words might properly convey, or the fullness of signification in which they might be properly used in the times of the Gospel. Compare the notes at 1 Peter 1:10-12. The language used here by David - “take not” - implies that he had been formerly in possession of that which he now sought. There was still in his heart that which might be regarded as the work of the Spirit of God; and he earnestly prayed that that might not be wholly taken away on account of his sin, or that he might not be entirely abandoned to despair.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 51:11. Cast me not away from thy presence — Banish me not from thy house and ordinances.
Take not thy Holy Spirit from me. — I know I have sufficiently grieved it to justify its departure for ever, in consequence of which I should be consigned to the blackness of darkness, - either to utter despair, or to a hard heart and seared conscience; and so work iniquity with greediness, till I fell into the pit of perdition. While the Spirit stays, painfully convincing of sin, righteousness, and judgment, there is hope of salvation; when it departs, then the hope of redemption is gone. But while there his any godly sorrow, any feeling of regret for having sinned against God, any desire to seek mercy, then the case is not hopeless; for these things prove that the light of the Spirit is not withdrawn.
