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Selected Verse: Psalms 51:6 - King James

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Ps 51:6 King James Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
thou shalt make, &c.--may be taken to express God's gracious purpose in view of His strict requisition; a purpose of which David might have availed himself as a check to his native love for sin, and, in not doing so, aggravated his guilt.

truth . . . and . . .wisdom--are terms often used for piety (compare Job 28:28; Psa 119:30).
 
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30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?