Psalm 51:10 (BSB)

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

From Psalms 51. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Psalm 51:10

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Psalm 51:1-19: PSALM 51 We learn the cause which led to the composition of this psalm from the title appended to it, and which will immediately come under our consideration. For a long period after his melancholy fall, David would seem to have sunk into a spiritual lethargy; but when roused from it by the expostulation of Nathan, he was filled with self-loathing and humiliation in the...
• C.H. Spurgeon (Reformed Baptist), The Treasury of David on Psalm 51:10: Create. What! has sin so destroyed us, that the Creator must be called in again? What ruin then doth evil work among mankind! Create in me. I, in my outward fabric, still exist; but I am empty, desert, void. Come, then, and let thy power be seen in a new creation within my old fallen self.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Psalm 51:7-13: I. See here what David prays for. Many excellent petitions he here puts up, to which if we do but add, "for Christ's sake," they are as evangelical as any other. 1. He prays that God would cleanse him from his sins and the defilement he had contracted by them (Psa 51:7): "Purge me with hyssop; that is, pardon my sins, and let me know...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Psalm 51:10: Create in me a clean heart, O God,.... Which was now defiled with sin, and of which being convinced, he was led more and more to see the impurity of his heart and nature, from which all his evil actions flowed; and being sensible that he could not make his heart clean himself, and that this was the work of God, and a work which...