according to your great mercy;
and according to the multitude of your compassions,
blot out my transgression.
2. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin.
3. For I am conscious of my iniquity,
and my sin is continually before me.
4. Against you alone have I sinned,
and done what is evil in your sight,
thus you may be justified
in your decrees,
and may be vindicated when
you are judged.
5. For behold, I was molded
in iniquities,
and in sins did my mother conceive me.
6. For behold, you love truth,
you have manifested to me
the secret and hidden things of your wisdom.
7. Sprinkle me with hyssop and I shall be purified;
wash me, and I shall become whiter than snow.
8. Cause me to hear gladness and joy
and these weary bones shall rejoice.
9. Turn your face away from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
10. Create a clean heart in me, O God,
and renew a right spirit in my
inner depths.
11. Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12. Restore to me the joy of your salvation;
establish me with your directing Spirit.
13. Then will I teach transgressors
your ways,
and the ungodly shall return to you.
14. Deliver me from blood-guilt O God, the God of my salvation,
and my tongue shall joyfully proclaim your righteousness.
15. O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth shall declare your praise.
16. For if you desired sacrifice, I would have rendered it.
In whole-burnt offerings you take no pleasure.
17. Sacrifice for God is a contrite spirit.
A broken and humbled heart you will not spurn, O God.
18. Deal favorably, O Lord, with Zion
according to your good pleasure;
Let the walls of Jerusalem be built up.
19. Then shall you be pleased with a sacrifice of righteousness,
an offering and whole-burnt sacrifices,
then shall they offer up calves upon your altar.
Psalm 53
1. Save me, O God, by your name,
and judge me by your might.
2. O God, hear my prayer;
give ear to the words of my mouth.
3. For strangers have risen up
against me,
and the mighty have sought my life;
they have not set God before their eyes.
4. For behold, God comes to my aid.
The Lord is the protector of my life.
5. The Lord will repay my enemies
with evil.
Utterly destroy them in your truth!
6. Willingly I will offer you sacrifices,
I will give thanks to your name O Lord, for it is good.
7. For you have rescued me from all afflictions,
and my eye has witnessed
my enemies’ fate.
Psalm 54
1. Give ear, O God, to my prayer,
and do not disregard my supplication.
2. Attend to me and hearken to me,
I was grieved in my meditation and troubled;
3. because of an enemy’s voice and oppression of a sinner;
because they brought iniquity against me, seething with rage.
4. My heart was troubled within me,
and the dread of death fell upon me.
5. Fear and trembling gripped me,
and darkness enshrouded me.
6. And I said, “O that I had wings like those of a dove,
that I might fly away and find rest.”
7. Behold! I have fled far and away,
and sought refuge in the wilderness.
8. I waited on the one who would deliver me
from distress of spirit and wild tempest.
9. Overwhelm, O Lord, and divide
their tongues,
for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
10. Day and night transgression keeps its rounds upon the walls;
iniquity,
