Psalm 51
Sign in to saveAlso known as Miserere, Miserere mei, Psalm 50, Have mercy upon me, O God
penitential psalm, numbered 51st in the Masoretic Text but 50th in the Septuagint and the Vulgate
Key facts
- Other name
- Psalm 50 "Miserere mei, Deus"
- Language
- Hebrew (original)
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Psalms
- Genre
- penitential psalm
- Followed by
- Psalm 52
- Follows
- Psalm 50
- Image
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- Psalm 52
- language of work or name
- Latin
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Encyclopedic overview
Psalm 51, one of the penitential psalms, is the 51st psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Have mercy upon me, O God". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Hebrew Bible, this psalm is Psalm 50. In Latin, it is known as Miserere, (Ancient Greek: ἐλέησόν με ὁ θεός, romanized: eléēsón me ho Theós) in Ancient Greek: Ἥ Ἐλεήμων, romanized: Hḗ Eleḗmōn), especially in musical settings. The introduction in the text says that it was composed by David as a confession to God after he sinned with Bathsheba.
The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Protestant liturgies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Psalm 51” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.