Psalms 51:13

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways,.... David was a prophet as well as a king; see Act 2:30; and taught men the fear of the Lord, Psa 34:11, and instructed them in his ways, as he here promises…

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways - As an expression of gratitude, and as the result of his own painful experience. He would show them, from that experience, the evil and the bitterness of sin…

I. See here what David prays for. Many excellent petitions he here puts up, to which if we do but add, "for Christ's sake," they are as evangelical as any other.

1. He prays that God would cleanse him…