Psalm 51:1-17

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Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

Leader: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love;
People: according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless in your judgment.
Behold, I was born into iniquity, and I have been sinful since my mother conceived me.

Response

Behold, you desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow;

Make me hear with joy and gladness; let the bones which you have borken rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, adn sinners will return to you.

Deliver me from death, O God, God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth your praise.

For you have no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you
will not despise.

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