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title: Psalm 51
slug: kjv/psalm-51
createdAt: 2024-08-25T02:26:46.995Z
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**1 **\{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

**2 **Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

**3 **For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin *is* ever before me.

**4 **Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done *this* evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, *and* be clear when thou judgest.

**5 **Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

**6 **Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden *part* thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

**7 **Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

**8 **Make me to hear joy and gladness; *that* the bones *which* thou hast broken may rejoice.

**9 **Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

**10 **Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

**11 **Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

**12 **Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me *with thy* free spirit.

**13 ***Then* will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

**14 **Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: *and* my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

**15 **O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

**16 **For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give *it*: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

**17 **The sacrifices of God *are* a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

**18 **Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

**19 **Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.