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OUR GOD IS A GOD OF RESTORATION
PSALM 51
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.
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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.
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