1 O God, favor me because of Your loving-kindness. Take away my wrong-doing because of the greatness of Your loving-pity.

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.

2 W ash me inside and out from my wrong-doing and make me clean from my sin.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and guilt and cleanse me and make me wholly pure from my sin!

3 F or I know my wrong-doing, and my sin is always in front of me.

For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them; my sin is ever before me.

4 I have sinned against You, and You only. I have done what is sinful in Your eyes. You are always right when You speak, and fair when You judge.

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.

5 S ee, I was born in sin and was in sin from my very beginning.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me.

6 S ee, You want truth deep within the heart. And You will make me know wisdom in the hidden part.

Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart.

7 T ake away my sin, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 M ake me hear joy and happiness. Let the bones that You have broken be full of joy.

Make me to hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

9 H ide Your face from my sins. And take away all my wrong-doing.

Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my guilt and iniquities.

10 M ake a clean heart in me, O God. Give me a new spirit that will not be moved.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me.

11 D o not throw me away from where You are. And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

12 L et the joy of Your saving power return to me. And give me a willing spirit to obey you.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.

13 T hen I will teach wrong-doers Your ways. And sinners will turn to You.

Then will I teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to You.

14 S ave me from the guilt of blood, O God. You are the God Who saves me. Then my tongue will sing with joy about how right and good You are.

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).

15 O Lord, open my lips, so my mouth will praise You.

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.

16 F or You are not happy with a gift given on the altar in worship, or I would give it. You are not pleased with burnt gifts.

For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering.

17 T he gifts on an altar that God wants are a broken spirit. O God, You will not hate a broken heart and a heart with no pride.

My sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, such, O God, You will not despise.

18 B e pleased to do good to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

19 T hen You will be happy with gifts given on the altar that are right and good, with burnt gifts and whole burnt gifts. Then young bulls will be given on Your altar.

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.