Psalms 51

²Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.

³For I know my transgressions.

⁴Against you, and you only, I have sinned,

⁵Behold, I was born in iniquity.

⁶Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.

⁷Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.

⁸Let me hear joy and gladness,

⁹Hide your face from my sins,

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God.

¹¹Don’t throw me from your presence,

¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation.

¹³Then I will teach transgressors your ways.

¹⁴Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation.

¹⁵Lord, open my lips.

¹⁶For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.

¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.

¹⁸Do well in your good pleasure to Zion.

¹⁹Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,