Psalm 51:8-19

English Standard Version

⁸Let me hear joy and gladness;
    ^(A)let the bones ^(B)that you have broken rejoice.
⁹^(C)Hide your face from my sins,
    and ^(D)blot out all my iniquities.
¹⁰^(E)Create in me a ^(F)clean heart, O God,
    and ^(G)renew a right^[a] spirit within me.
¹¹^(H)Cast me not away from your presence,
    and take not ^(I)your Holy Spirit from me.
¹²Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
    and uphold me with a willing spirit.

¹³Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
    and sinners will ^(J)return to you.
¹⁴Deliver me from ^(K)bloodguiltiness, O God,
    O ^(L)God of my salvation,
    and ^(M)my tongue will sing aloud of your ^(N)righteousness.
¹⁵O Lord, open my lips,
    and my mouth will declare your praise.
¹⁶^(O)For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
    you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
¹⁷The sacrifices of God are ^(P)a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

¹⁸^(Q)Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
    ^(R)build up the walls of Jerusalem;
¹⁹then will you delight in ^(S)right sacrifices,
    in burnt offerings and ^(T)whole burnt offerings;
    then bulls will be offered on your altar.