Psa 32:1-5 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Ps 32:1-11: Ps 32 This wisdom psalm of confession and thanksgiving encourages and exhorts the godly to learn from the psalmist’s experience of sin, denial, confession, and forgiveness. This psalm was one of the seven psalms of penitence used in the early church (also Pss 6 , 38 , 51 , 102 , 130 , 143 ). Summary for Ps 32:1-2: 32:1-2 The Lord’s forgiveness restores people to fellowship with him, clears them of guilt , and gives them great joy . Paul quoted this text when explaining justification by faith alone (Rom 4:4-8 ).

Summary for Ps 32:1-11: Ps 32 ^a This wisdom psalm of confession and thanksgiving encourages and exhorts the godly to learn from the psalmist’s experience of sin, denial, confession, and forgiveness. This psalm was one of the seven psalms of penitence used in the early church (also Pss 6 ^b, 38 ^c, 51 ^d, 102 ^e, 130 ^f, 143 ^g).
Summary for Ps 32:1-2: 32:1-2 ^h The Lord’s forgiveness restores people to fellowship with him, clears them of guilt, and gives them great joy. Paul quoted this text when explaining justification by faith alone (Rom 4:4-8 ⁱ).
Summary for Ps 32:3-5: 32:3-5 ^j The psalmist acknowledges his own sin (see 19:12-13 ^k; 25:7 ^l, 11 ^m, 15-22 ⁿ) and his resistance to confessing sin. The Lord pressed him hard until he confessed his guilt.
32:4 ^o The psalmist attributes his suffering directly to the Lord’s hand of discipline (cp. 38:2 ^p; 39:10 ^q).
32:5 ^r God has forgiven the guilt and rebellion of 32:1 ^s. The Lord’s nature is to reconcile and forgive (78:38 ^t; 85:2 ^u; 130:4 ^v), but he requires confession and repentance.