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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

¹Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.²Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.Cleanse me from my sin.³For I know my transgressions.My sin is constantly before me.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.⁵Behold, I was born in iniquity.My mother conceived me in sin.⁶Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.⁷Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.⁸Let me hear joy and gladness,that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.⁹Hide your face from my sins,and blot out all of my iniquities.¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God.Renew a right spirit within me.¹¹Don’t throw me from your presence,and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation.Uphold me with a willing spirit.¹³Then I will teach transgressors your ways.Sinners will be converted to you.¹⁴Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation.My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.¹⁵Lord, open my lips.My mouth will declare your praise.¹⁶For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.You have no pleasure in burnt offering.¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

¹⁸Do well in your good pleasure to Zion.Build the walls of Jerusalem.¹⁹Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings.Then they will offer bulls on your altar.