PS-51:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the

prophet came

unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me,

O God,

according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of

thy tender

mercies blot outmy transgressions.

PS-51:2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me

from my sin.

PS-51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is]

ever before me.

PS-51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this]

evil in thy

sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and]

be clear when

thou judgest.

PS-51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my

mother conceive

me.

PS-51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in

the hidden

[part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

PS-51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and

I shall be

whiter than snow.

PS-51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones

[which] thou hast

broken may rejoice.

PS-51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine

iniquities.

PS-51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right

spirit within

me.

PS-51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy

holy spirit from

me.

PS-51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me

[with thy]

free spirit.

PS-51:13 [Then] will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners

shall be

converted unto thee.

PS-51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my

salvation:

[and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

PS-51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show

forth thy praise.

PS-51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give [it]:

 thou

delightest not in burnt offering.

PS-51:17 The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken

and a contrite

heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

PS-51:18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the

walls of

Jerusalem.

PS-51:19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of

righteousness, with

burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer

bullocks upon

thine altar.

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