1 - ?For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.?
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
2 - Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
3 - For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
4 - Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
5 - Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
6 - Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
7 - Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 - Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 - Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
10 - Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 - Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 - Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
13 - Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.
14 - Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
15 - Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 - You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 - My sacrifice, O God, is
18 - May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
19 - Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.