2.3 KiB
2.3 KiB
Psalm 51 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.
- Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
- For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
- 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.
- Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
- Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
- Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
- Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
- Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
- Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
- Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
- Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
- O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
- For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
- The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
- Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
- then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
(ESV)