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            <div class="label">51</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.51.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Wash me throughly from mine iniquity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="content">And cleanse me from my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.51.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I acknowledge my transgressions:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="content">And my sin </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> ever before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.51.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done </span><span class="add"><span class="content">this</span></span><span class="content"> evil in thy sight:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> be clear when thou judgest.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.51.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Behold, I was shapen in iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="content">And in sin did my mother conceive me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.51.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="content">And in the hidden </span><span class="add"><span class="content">part</span></span><span class="content"> thou shalt make me to know wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.51.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="content">Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.51.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Make me to hear joy and gladness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That</span></span><span class="content"> the bones </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> thou hast broken may rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.51.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hide thy face from my sins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="content">And blot out all mine iniquities.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.51.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Create in me a clean heart, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="content">And renew a right spirit within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.51.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Cast me not away from thy presence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="content">And take not thy holy spirit from me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.51.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="content">And uphold me </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with thy</span></span><span class="content"> free spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.51.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Then</span></span><span class="content"> will I teach transgressors thy ways;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="content">And sinners shall be converted unto thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.51.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.51.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">O Lord, open thou my lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="content">And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.51.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="content">Thou delightest not in burnt offering.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.51.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The sacrifices of God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> a broken spirit:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.51.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="content">Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.51.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.51.19"><span class="content">Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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