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- HAVE MERCY upon me, O God, according to Your steadfast love; according to the multitude of Your tender mercy and loving-kindness blot out my transgressions.
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- Wash me thoroughly [and repeatedly] from my iniquity and guilt and cleanse me and make me wholly pure from my sin!
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- For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them; my sin is ever before me.
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- 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 faultless in Your judgment. [Rom. 3:4.]
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- Behold, I was brought forth in [a state of] iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me [and I too am sinful]. [John 3:6; Rom. 5:12; Eph. 2:3.]
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- Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart.
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- Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean [ceremonially]; wash me, and I shall [in reality] be whiter than snow.
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- Make me to hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
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- Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my guilt and iniquities.
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- Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me.
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- Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
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- Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.
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- Then will I teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to You.
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- Deliver me from bloodguiltiness and death, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness (Your rightness and Your justice).
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- O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
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- For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering. [I Sam. 15:22.]
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- My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.
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- Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
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- Then will You delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, justice, and right, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then bullocks will be offered upon Your altar.
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