Psalms - Chapter 51 | English Standard Version

  • 1. To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
  • 2. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
  • 3. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
  • 4. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
  • 5. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
  • 6. Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
  • 7. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
  • 8. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
  • 9. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
  • 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
  • 11. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
  • 12. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
  • 13. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
  • 14. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
  • 15. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
  • 16. For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
  • 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
  • 18. Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
  • 19. then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
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