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A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Have mercy on me, O God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">according to your steadfast love;</span></span><br /><span class="text">according to your abundant mercy</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">blot out my transgressions.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and cleanse me from my sin.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>For I know my transgressions,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my sin is ever before me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Against you, you alone, have I sinned,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and done what is evil in your sight,</span></span><br /><span class="text">so that you are justified in your sentence</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and blameless when you pass judgment.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Indeed, I was born guilty,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a sinner when my mother conceived me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>You desire truth in the inward being;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16768a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Let me hear joy and gladness;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Hide your face from my sins,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and blot out all my iniquities.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Create in me a clean heart, O God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and put a new and right<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16772b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> spirit within me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Do not cast me away from your presence,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and do not take your holy spirit from me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Restore to me the joy of your salvation,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and sustain in me a willing<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16774c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> spirit.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then I will teach transgressors your ways,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and sinners will return to you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Deliver me from bloodshed, O God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O God of my salvation,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>O Lord, open my lips,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my mouth will declare your praise.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For you have no delight in sacrifice;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>The sacrifice acceptable to God<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16779d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> is a broken spirit;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>then you will delight in right sacrifices,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">then bulls will be offered on your altar.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 51:6">Psalm 51:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 51:10">Psalm 51:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>steadfast</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 51:12">Psalm 51:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>generous</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 51:17">Psalm 51:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>My sacrifice, O God,</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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