1After thy loving-kindness, Lord, have mercy upon me: For thy compassions great, blot out all mine iniquity. | 2Me cleanse from sin, and throughly wash from mine iniquity: 3For my transgressions I confess; my sin I ever see. | 4’Gainst thee, thee only, have I sinn’d, in thy sight done this ill; That when thou speak’st thou may’st be just, and clear in judging still. | 5Behold, I in iniquity was form’d the womb within; My mother also me conceiv’d in guiltiness and sin. | 6Behold, thou in the inward parts with truth delighted art; And wisdom thou shalt make me know within the hidden part. | 7Do thou with hyssop sprinkle me, I shall be cleansed so; Yea, wash thou me, and then I shall be whiter than the snow. | 8Of gladness and of joyfulness make me to hear the voice; That so these very bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. | 9All mine iniquities blot out, thy face hide from my sin. 10Create a clean heart, Lord, renew a right sp’rit me within. | 11Cast me not from thy sight, nor take thy Holy Sp’rit away. 12Restore me thy salvation’s joy; with thy free Sp’rit me stay. | 13Then will I teach thy ways unto those that transgressors be; And those that sinners are shall then be turned unto thee. | 14O God, of my salvation God, me from blood-guiltiness Set free; then shall my tongue aloud sing of thy righteousness. | 15My closed lips, O Lord, by thee let them be opened; Then shall thy praises by my mouth abroad be published. | 16For thou desir’st not sacrifice, else would I give it thee; Nor wilt thou with burnt-offering at all delighted be. | 17A broken spirit is to God a pleasing sacrifice: A broken and a contrite heart, Lord, thou wilt not despise. | 18Shew kindness, and do good, O Lord, to Sion, thine own hill: The walls of thy Jerusalem build up of thy good will. | 19Then righteous off ‘rings shall thee please, and off ‘rings burnt, which they With whole burnt-off ‘rings, and with calves, shall on thine altar lay. | |