Psalms 51

¹ Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

³ For I know my transgressions.

⁴ Against you, and you only, I have sinned,

⁵ Behold, I was born in iniquity.

⁶ Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.

⁷ Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

⁸ Let me hear joy and gladness,

⁹ Hide your face from my sins,

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹ Don’t throw me from your presence,

¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

¹³ Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you.

¹⁴ Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation.

¹⁵ Lord, open my lips.

¹⁶ For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.

¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.

¹⁸ Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

¹⁹ Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,