51:1 HAVE MERCY upon me, O God, according to Your steadfast love; according to the multitude of Your tender mercy {and} loving-kindness blot out my transgressions. |
51:2 Wash me thoroughly [and repeatedly] from my iniquity {and} guilt and cleanse me {and} make me wholly pure from my sin! |
51:3 For I am conscious of my transgressions {and} I acknowledge them; my sin is ever before me. |
51:4 Against You, You only, have I sinned and done that which is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified in Your sentence and faultless in Your judgment. |
51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in [a state of] iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me [and I too am sinful]. |
51:6 Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart. |
51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean [ceremonially]; wash me, and I shall [in reality] be whiter than snow. |
51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness {and} be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice. |
51:9 Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my guilt {and} iniquities. |
51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, {and} steadfast spirit within me. |
51:11 Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. |
51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit. |
51:13 Then will I teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted {and} return to You. |
51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness {and} death, O God, the God of my salvation, {and} my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness (Your rightness and Your justice). |
51:15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise. |
51:16 For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering. |
51:17 My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise. |
51:18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. |
51:19 Then will You delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, justice, {and} right, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then bullocks will be offered upon Your altar. |