Psalm 51

• GNV, Psalm 51:2 9

  “Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie, and clense me from my sinne […] Hide thy face from my sinnes, and put awaie all mine iniquities.” 
• Lock 51:2 9

  ‘put away’

  ‘hide thy face from my sinnes’, 

  ‘tre[m]bling’ 

   ‘sight of sinne so sore offendeth thee.’ 

  ‘Loke on me, Lord: but loke not on my sinne,’ 

  1 John 1:7-9,

  ‘That hatest sinne, wipe all my sinnes away.’ 
• Sidney 51: 2 9

  “confess,” “just judge” “true witness”, ‘guilt’ as ‘evidence,’

  Same verb as the GNV and Lock of ‘wipe,’ ‘my sins’ need to be removed ‘from sinful me.’ 

   ‘Oh, cleanse, oh, wash, my foul iniquity;/ Cleanse still my spots, still wash away my stainings…/ leave no remainings.’ 

  ‘Thy ill-pleased eye from my misdeeds avert.’ 
• Lock 51: 8 17

  ‘broosed bones.’ ‘leape for ioy’ ‘that thou with paine’ 'my febled corpse to beare.’ 

  ‘sounde’ 'grace’ ‘inward chere.’ 

  'my dyeng hart to thee.’  ‘the broken humbled hart.’ ‘trobled,’ ‘fleing,’ and ‘pining;’

  ‘pleasing’ ‘to God.’ 
• Sidney 51: 8 17

  ‘to ear and heart send sounds and thoughts of gladness.’ 

  ‘dance.’ 

  ‘a contrite spirit’ ‘broken heart’

  ‘sacrifice that God will hold respected.’ 'heart-broken soul, the sprite dejected.’ 

  “burt-off’ring,”
• Femke Molekamp 


  Sidney ‘appears to respond both to Anne Lock’s prose and verse versions,’ of the Psalm. 
• Other Paraphrases

  Philip Sidney 1-43.5 Psalms

  Thomas Wyatt Paraphrase of the Penitential Psalms
• Dates

  Sidney Psalter - prior to 1599

  Lock’s Sonnet Sequence - 1560

  Wyatt Penitential psalms - 1534-1542

  GNV Bible - 1560
• GNV, 51:8 17

  Make me to heare joye and gladnes, that the bones, which thou hast broken, maie reioyce

  The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit: a contrite & a broken heart, o God, thou wilt not despise.