The Book of Psalms 51

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1 Have mercy upon me O God according to thy lovingkindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions ⚑

2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin ⚑

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me ⚑

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 ⚑

5 Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me ⚑

6 Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom ⚑

7 Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than snow ⚑

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice ⚑

9 Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities ⚑

10 Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me ⚑

11 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me ⚑

12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit ⚑

13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee ⚑

14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness O God thou God of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness ⚑

15 O Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise ⚑

16 For thou desirest not sacrifice else would I give it thou delightest not in burnt offering ⚑

17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise ⚑

18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion build thou the walls of Jerusalem ⚑

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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

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