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Psalms 51

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1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.> Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
2 Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.
5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
6 Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
7 Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
8 Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
10 Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
11 Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
12 Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.
13 Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
14 Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
15 Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.
15 O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.
16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
16 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
17 The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
18 May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
19 Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.
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