• Psalm 51In Hebrew texts 51:1-19 is numbered 51:3-21.

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