Psalm 51:8
New International Version
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

New Living Translation
Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me— now let me rejoice.

English Standard Version
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

Berean Standard Bible
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

King James Bible
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

New King James Version
Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice.

New American Standard Bible
Let me hear joy and gladness, Let the bones You have broken rejoice.

NASB 1995
Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

NASB 1977
Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which Thou hast broken rejoice.

Legacy Standard Bible
Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have crushed rejoice.

Amplified Bible
Make me hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

Christian Standard Bible
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

American Standard Version
Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Satisfy me in your sweetness and your joy and my humble bones will rejoice.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt cause me to hear gladness and joy: the afflicted bones shall rejoice.

Contemporary English Version
Let me be happy and joyful! You crushed my bones, now let them celebrate.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

English Revised Version
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Let me hear [sounds of] joy and gladness. Let the bones that you have broken dance.

Good News Translation
Let me hear the sounds of joy and gladness; and though you have crushed me and broken me, I will be happy once again.

International Standard Version
Let me know joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Make me to hear joy and gladness; That the bones which Thou hast crushed may rejoice.

Literal Standard Version
You cause me to hear joy and gladness, | You make bones You have bruised joyful.

Majority Standard Bible
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

New American Bible
You will let me hear gladness and joy; the bones you have crushed will rejoice.

NET Bible
Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! May the bones you crushed rejoice!

New Revised Standard Version
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.

New Heart English Bible
Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Webster's Bible Translation
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

World English Bible
Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised.

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Context
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice. 9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

Psalm 35:10
All my bones will exclaim, "Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?"

Psalm 44:19
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Isaiah 35:10
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

Isaiah 38:13
I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

Lamentations 3:4
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

Joel 1:16
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes--joy and gladness from the house of our God?


Treasury of Scripture

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Make

Psalm 13:5
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

Psalm 30:11
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

Psalm 119:81,82
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word…

bones

Psalm 6:2,3
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed…

Psalm 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Job 5:17,18
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: …

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Psalm 51
1. David prays for remission of sins, whereof he makes a deep confession
6. He prays for sanctification
16. God delights not in sacrifice, but in sincerity
18. He prays for the church














(8) The bones which thou hast broken . . .--Through his whole being the psalmist has felt the crushing weight of sin; to its very fibres, as we say, his frame has suffered.

Verse 8. - Make me to hear joy and gladness (comp. below, ver. 12). On forgiveness follows naturally the sense of it, and this sense is in itself a deep satisfaction. But the psalmist seems to ask for something more. He wants not mere negative peace and rest, but the active thrilling joy which those experience who feel themselves restored to God's favour, and bask in the light of his countenance. That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. That every ache and pain may cease, and be replaced by gladness and rejoicing.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Let me hear
תַּ֭שְׁמִיעֵנִי (taš·mî·‘ê·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

joy
שָׂשׂ֣וֹן (śā·śō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8342: Cheerfulness, welcome

and gladness;
וְשִׂמְחָ֑ה (wə·śim·ḥāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8057: Blithesomeness, glee

let the bones
עֲצָמ֥וֹת (‘ă·ṣā·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

You have crushed
דִּכִּֽיתָ׃ (dik·kî·ṯā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1794: To collapse

rejoice.
תָּ֝גֵ֗לְנָה (tā·ḡê·lə·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 1523: To spin round, rejoice, fear


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