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Fill me with joy and gladness; let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.
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Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
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Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.
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Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
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Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners will return to thee.
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Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance.
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O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
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For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.
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The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
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Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,