A. (1) Have mercy upon me, O God,
according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies
blot out my transgressions.
B. (2a) Wash me throughly from mine iniquity,
(2b) and cleanse me from my sin.
C. (3) For I acknowledge my transgressions:
(3b) and my sin is ever before me.
(4) Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,
and done this evil in thy sight:
D. that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,
and be clear when thou judgest.
C’. (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.
B’. (7) Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
A’. (8-9) Make me to hear joy and gladness;
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins,
and blot out all mine iniquities.
A.(8) Make me to hear joy and gladness;
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
B. (9) Hide thy face from my sins,
and blot out all mine iniquities.
C. (10) Create in me a clean heart, O God;
C’. and renew a right spirit within me.
B’. (11) Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
A’. (12) Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
A. (13) Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
B. (14) Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
B’. thou God of my salvation:
A’. and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
(15) O Lord, open thou my lips;
and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
A. (16) For thou desirest not sacrifice;
else would I give it:
B. thou delightest not in burnt offering.
C. (17) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
D. (18) Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:
D’ . build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
C’. (19) Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
B’. with burnt offering and whole burnt offering:
A’. then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.