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But you want me to be completely good and honest.
You want to teach me to be wise
    in the way that I live.
Splash water over me with a hyssop plant,
    and I will be really clean.[a]
Wash me and I will be whiter than snow.[b]
Please forgive me so that I can be happy.
    Then my whole body will feel well again.

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Footnotes

  1. 51:7 See Exodus 12:22; Leviticus 14:4-6,49-52; Numbers 19:6-18. Hyssop was a plant that the Israelites used to splash blood or water on things as a sign that God would make them pure.
  2. 51:7 Whiter than snow means ‘very pure and clean.’