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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 32 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/32.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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33">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="d">(A special psalm by David.)</h3><h3 class="s1">The Joy of Forgiveness</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.1" class="v19_32_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.32.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Our <span class="nd">Lord</span>, you bless everyone</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_1">whose sins you forgive</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_1">and wipe away.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.2" class="v19_32_2">2</span>You bless them by saying,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_2">“You told me your sins,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_2">without trying to hide them,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_2">and now I forgive you.”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.3" class="v19_32_3">3</span>Before I confessed my sins,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_3">my bones felt limp,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_3">and I groaned all day long.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.4" class="v19_32_4">4</span>Night and day your hand</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_4">weighed heavily on me,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_4">and my strength was gone</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_4">as in the summer heat.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.5" class="v19_32_5">5</span>So I confessed my sins</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_5">and told them all to you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_5">I said, “I'll tell the <span class="nd">Lord</span></span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_5">each one of my sins.”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_5">Then you forgave me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_5">and took away my guilt.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.6" class="v19_32_6">6</span>We worship you, Lord,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_6">and we should always pray</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_6">whenever we find out</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_6">that we have sinned.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.32.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_6">Then we won't be swept away</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_6">by a raging flood.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.7" class="v19_32_7">7</span>You are my hiding place!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_7">You protect me from trouble,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_7">and you put songs in my heart</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_7">because you have saved me.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.8" class="v19_32_8">8</span>You said to me,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_8">“I will point out the road</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_8">that you should follow.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_8">I will be your teacher</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_8">and watch over you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.9" class="v19_32_9">9</span>Don't be stupid</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_9">like horses and mules</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_9">that must be led with ropes</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_9">to make them obey.”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.10" class="v19_32_10">10</span>All kinds of troubles</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_10">will strike the wicked,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_10">but your kindness shields those</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_10">who trust you, <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_32_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.32.11" class="v19_32_11">11</span>And so your good people</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_32_11">should celebrate and shout.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">32.6 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">whenever … sinned: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “at a time of finding only.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition 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