Psalm 51
Psalm 51
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot[1] out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin[2].
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions[3]: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee[4], thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight[5]: that thou mightest be justified[6] when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity[7]; and in sin did my mother conceive[8] me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop,[9] and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart[10], O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence[11]; and take not thy holy spirit[12] from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit[13].
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.[14]
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness[15], with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Footnotes
- ↑ Col 2:14
- ↑ Eze 36:25, Zec 13:1, 1 Cor 6:11, Heb 9:14, 1 Joh 1:7, Rev 1:5
- ↑ Psa 32:5
- ↑ Gen 39:9
- ↑ Luk 15:21
- ↑ Rom 3:4
- ↑ Rom 5:12, Joh 3:6, Job 14:4
- ↑ Notice the pro-life statement here, while some English translations (like the NIV) replace "conceive" with "gave birth to."
- ↑ hyssop is an unidentified wild shrub whose twigs were used for sprinkling to purify.
- ↑ Pro 20:9, Jer 13:27, Eze 11:19, Act 15:9, Eph 2:10
- ↑ Gen 4:14
- ↑ Eze 36:27, Rom 8:9
- ↑ Rom 8:15, 2 Cor 3:17
- ↑ Augustine quotes this and the following verse (51:16-17) in The City of God - Augustine refers to a "humble God."
- ↑ Mal 3:3
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