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Psalm 51

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1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy 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 me thoroughly from 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 ever before me.
3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.
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 Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.
5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
6 You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
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 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall 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 that 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 iniquities.
9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
10 Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
11 Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not 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 sustain in me a willing spirit.
12 Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
13 Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.
14 Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.
14 Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips, 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 For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.
16 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you 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 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; rebuild 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 right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; 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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