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Psalms 51
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1(52) For the end, [a Psalm] of instruction by David, when Doec the Idumean came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in [your] mischief? All the day
1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
2your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit.
2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
3You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.
3For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
4You have loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue.
4Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
5Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.
5Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
6And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say,
6Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
7Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.
7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.
8Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
9I will give thanks to you for ever, for you have done [it]: and I will wait on your name; for [it is] good before the saints.
9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.