Psalms 51

Psalm 51

Prayer for Cleansing and Pardon

To the leader. A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

1 # Ps 4.1; 106.45; Acts 3.19 Have mercy on me, O God,

according to your steadfast love;

according to your abundant mercy,

blot out my transgressions.

2 # Heb 9.14; 1 Jn 1.7 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,

and cleanse me from my sin.

3 # Isa 59.12 For I know my transgressions,

and my sin is ever before me.

4 # Gen 20.6; Rom 3.4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned

and done what is evil in your sight,

so that you are justified in your sentence

and blameless when you pass judgment.

5 # Job 14.4; Ps 58.3 Indeed, I was born guilty,

a sinner when my mother conceived me.

6 # Ps 15.2; Prov 2.6 You desire truth in the inward being;#51.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain

therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

7 # Lev 14.4; Isa 1.18 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;

wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 # Ps 35.10 Let me hear joy and gladness;

let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.

9 # Jer 16.17 Hide your face from my sins,

and blot out all my iniquities.

10 # Ps 78.37; Acts 15.9 Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and put a new and right#51.10 Or steadfast spirit within me.

11 # 2 Kings 13.23; Eph 4.30 Do not cast me away from your presence,

and do not take your holy spirit from me.

12 # Ps 13.5; 2 Cor 3.17 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,

and sustain in me a willing#51.12 Or generous spirit.

13 # Ps 22.27; Acts 9.21, 22 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,

and sinners will return to you.

14 # 2 Sam 12.9; Ps 25.5; 35.28 Deliver me from bloodshed, O God,

O God of my salvation,

and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.

15 # Ps 9.14 O Lord, open my lips,

and my mouth will declare your praise.

16 # 1 Sam 15.22; Ps 40.6 For you have no delight in sacrifice;

if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.

17 # Ps 34.18 The sacrifice acceptable to God#51.17 Or My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;

a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

18 # Ps 102.16; Isa 51.3 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;

rebuild the walls of Jerusalem;

19 # Ps 4.5; 66.13, 15 then you will delight in right sacrifices,

in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;

then bulls will be offered on your altar.

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