Judgement and mercy. Five psalms where the center psalm and center verse is 'create in me a pure heart'

1. Adjacent Psalms
that tell a story
part 6
Psalm 49, 50, 51, 52, 53
Five psalms of judgement
with a plea for mercy in the center
create in me
a clean heart

2. There are 5 psalms bearing on judgement of
sin and mercy.
The Center Psalm is 51 and center verse is
Psalm 51:10 " Create in me a clean heart, O
God, and renew a right spirit within me.”
The mercy is appealed to or coming from the
nature of God himself and who He is.
In the end salvation rests on God and who
God is

3. A Psalm for all peoples
Psalm 49

4. 49
Hear this, all peoples!
Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
2 hboth low and high,
rich and poor together!
To: the low and high
rich and poor

5. 3 My mouth shall speak iwisdom;
the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
….and meant to be sung to music

6. 7 Truly no man ocan ransom another,
or pgive to God qthe price of his life,
8 for rthe ransom of their life is costly
and can never suffice,
9 that he should live on forever
and snever see the pit.
All men face death and need redemption
and the cost is beyond their means

7. 17
hFor when he dies he will icarry nothing away;
his glory will not go down after him.
As for earthly treasures,
you can’t take it with you…

8. A Psalm summoning the earth
Psalm 50

9. 50
oThe Mighty One, God the LORD,
speaks and summons the earth
pfrom the rising of the sun to its setting.

10. Speaking to God’s people
7
y“Hear, O my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, I will testify against you.
zI am God, your God.
8 Not for your sacrifices ado I rebuke you;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.

11. 11 bI know all the birds of the hills,
and all that moves in the field is mine.
12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
cfor the world and its fullness are mine.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
14 dOffer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,2
and eperform your vows to the Most High,
15 and fcall upon me in the day of trouble;
I will gdeliver you, and you shall hglorify me.”

12. 22 “Mark this, then, you who qforget God,
lest I tear you apart, and there be rnone to
deliver!
23 The one who soffers thanksgiving as his
sacrifice glorifies me;
to one who torders his way rightly
I will show the usalvation of God!”
And speaking to the wicked

13. A Plea for mercy
based on who God is
Psalm 51

14. Psalm 51 English Standard Version (ESV)
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan th
e prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
51
Have mercy on me,[a] O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
2
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!

15. 3
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
4
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.

16. 8
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9
Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.

17. 10
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
center psalm, center verse

18. 11
Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13
Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.

19. 14
Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
15
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
18

20. 16
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
18

21. A Psalm of judgement
and enduring mercy
Psalm 52

22. Psalm 52 English Standard Version (ESV)
The Steadfast Love of God Endures
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the
Edomite, ame and told Saul, “David has come to the house
of Ahimelech.”
52
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
2
Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
3
You love evil more than good,
and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah

23. 4
You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
5
But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

24. 6
The righteous shall see and fear,
and shall laugh at him, saying,
7
“See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[b]
8
But I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
forever and ever.
9
I will thank you forever,
because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, for it is good,
in the presence of the godly.

25. A reminder there is none who
does good
but Salvation for Israel
Psalm 53

26. Psalm 53 English Standard Version (ESV)
There Is None Who Does Good
To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath.
A Maskil[a] of David.
53
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;
there is none who does good.
2
God looks down from heaven
on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,[b]
who seek after God.
3
They have all fallen away;
together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.

27. Have those who work evil no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and do not call upon God?
5
There they are, in great terror,
where there is no terror!
For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;
you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.

28. 6
Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores the fortunes of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

29. Adjacent Psalms
that tell a story
part 6
Five psalms of judgement
with a plea for mercy in the center
Psalm 49, 50, 51, 52, 53