Psalm 51:11

Hebrew Bible

9 Hide your face from my sins. Wipe away all my guilt. 10 Create for me a pure heart, O God. Renew a resolute spirit within me. 11 Do not reject me. Do not take your Holy Spirit away from me. 12 Let me again experience the joy of your deliverance. Sustain me by giving me the desire to obey. 13 Then I will teach rebels your merciful ways, and sinners will turn to you.

Isaiah 63:10

Hebrew Bible

8 He said, “Certainly they will be my people, children who are not disloyal.” He became their deliverer. 9 Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times. 10 But they rebelled and offended his Holy Spirit, so he turned into an enemy and fought against them. 11 His people remembered the ancient times. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherd of his flock? Where is the one who placed his Holy Spirit among them, 12 the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, who divided the water before them, gaining for himself a lasting reputation,

 Notes and References

"... It has been widely assumed that the psalm belongs to the period after the fall of Jerusalem in 597 B.C.E. based on verses 20–21, which (as noted above) may be a later addition and no reliable evidence of the date for the primary psalm. Stronger evidence is supplied by the fact that individual prayers of confession are more common in the later literature of Israel’s history, though not absent in earlier accounts (note Achan in Joshua 8:20–21; David in 2 Samuel 12:13). For references, see above, and note the powerful Prayer of Manasseh in the Apocrypha. Verbal and conceptual parallels between Psalm 51 and Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah 40-66 have been used to argue for a general context of later Israel ... Note also the similarity of attitude toward sacrifice (verses 16–19) with Amos 5:21, 22; Hosea 6:6; Isaiah 1:11–13, 16; Jeremiah 6:20; 7:22; 14:22, as well as the “clean heart” and “steadfast spirit” (verse 12) with Jeremiah 24:7; 31:33, 32:39; 36:26. The “holy spirit” appears elsewhere in the Old Testament only in Isaiah 63:10, 11 (compare Isaiah 63:14) ..."

Tate, Marvin E. Word Biblical Commentary: Psalms 51-100 (p. 35) Word Books, 2000

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