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51:1  For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
51:2  Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
51:3  For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
51:4  Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
51:5  Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
51:6  Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
51:7  Cleanse me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
51:8  Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
51:9  Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
51:10  Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
51:11  Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
51:12  Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
51:13  Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.
51:14  Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Saviour, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
51:15  Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.
51:16  You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
51:17  My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
51:18  May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
51:19  Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.