Psalms 51 · Clearspring

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba.

Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

¹Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.+ ²Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.+ ³For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.+ ⁴Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.+ ⁵Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.+ ⁶Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.+ ⁷Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.+ ⁸Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.+ ⁹Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.+ ¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.+ ¹¹Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.+ ¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.+ ¹³Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you.+ ¹⁴Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.+ ¹⁵Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.+ ¹⁶For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.+ ¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.+ ¹⁸Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.+ ¹⁹Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.+

Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

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