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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
1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit.
2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.
3For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4You have loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue.
4Against 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.
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 shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say,
6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.
7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall 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.
8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast 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 thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.