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To the director. A song of David.
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When Nathan the prophet came to him because he went into Bathsheba.
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Be gracious to me, God,
Because of your steadfast faithfulness,
Because of your great mercies,
Blot out my transgressions.
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[They are] many.
Wash me from my iniquity.
And from my sin purify me.
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For I know my transgressions and my sins are always before me.
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To you, to you only, I sinned,
And I did rottenness before your eyes
For you are just in your word,
You are pure in your judging.
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Behold, in guilt I was born
And in sin my mother conceived me.
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Behold, you delight [in] truth in the inner parts,
And when you stopped [me?] you caused me to know wisdom.
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You will sin-offering me with hyssop,
And I will be cleansed.
You will wash me
And more than snow I will be whitened.
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You will cause me to hear exaltation and joy,
And the bones you crushed will rejoice.
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Hide your face from my sins,
And all my iniquities blot out.
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Create for me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a firm spirit in my inner part.
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Do not cast me out from your presence,
And your Holy Spirit do not take from me.
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Restore to me the exhaltation of your salvation
And uphold for me a noble spirit.
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I will teach transgressors your ways
And sinners to you will return.
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Deliver me from bloods, God,
God of my deliverance.
My tongue will allulate your righteousness.
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My lord, my lips you will open
and my mouth will tell your praises.
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For you will not delight [in] sacrifice
or I will give it
a whole burnt offering is not pleasing.
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Sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit,
A broken heart and crushed, God, you will not despise.
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Do good with your favour to Zion,
Build walls of Jerusalem.
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Then you will delight in sacrifices of righteousnesses,
Whole burnt offerings and other whole burnt offerings,
Then steers will go up upon your altar.