Psalms - Chapter 51 - New International Version
- Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
- Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
- For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
- 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.
- Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
- Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
- Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
- Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
- Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
- Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
- Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
- Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.
- Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
- Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.
- You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
- My sacrifice, O God, is "a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
- May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
- Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.