51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

² Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

³ For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

⁴ Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in Thy sight, that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest.

⁵ Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

⁶ Behold, Thou desirest truth in my inward parts; in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

⁷ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice.

⁹ Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹ Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy holy Spirit from me.

¹² Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, and uphold me with Thy free Spirit.

¹³ Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto Thee.

¹⁴ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, Thou God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Thy righteousness.

¹⁵ O Lord, open Thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise.

¹⁶ For Thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it; Thou delightest not in burnt offering.

¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

¹⁸ Do good in Thy good pleasure unto Zion; build Thou the walls of Jerusalem.

¹⁹ Then shalt Thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then shall they offer bullocks upon Thine altar.

52 Why boastest thou in thine own mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endureth continually.

² Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

³ Thou lovest evil more than good, and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah

⁴ Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

⁵ God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; He shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah

⁶ The righteous also shall see this and fear, and shall laugh at him:

⁷ “Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his own wickedness.”

⁸ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

⁹ I will praise Thee for ever, because Thou hast done it, and I will wait on Thy name, for it is good before Thy saints.

53 The fool hath said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt and have done abominable iniquity; there is none that doeth good.

² God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that understood, that had sought God.

³ Every one of them has turned back; they have altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

⁴ Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge—those who eat up my people as they eat bread? They have not called upon God.

⁵ There they were in great fear, where no fear was; for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee; thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

⁶ O that the salvation of Israel might come out of Zion! When God bringeth back His captive people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.

2 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art who judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself, for thou that judgest doest the same things.

² But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.

³ And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those who do such things and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

⁵ But because of thy hardness and impenitence of heart, thou treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the Day of Wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁶ who will render to every man according to his deeds:

⁷ to those who by patient continuance in welldoing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

⁸ but unto those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

⁹ tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who doeth evil, upon the Jew first and also upon the Gentile;

¹⁰ but glory, honor and peace to every man who worketh good, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.

¹¹ For there is no respect of persons with God.

¹² For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.

¹³ (For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

¹⁴ For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, they, not having the law, are a law unto themselves,

¹⁵ which shows the work of the law written in their hearts,their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts between accusing and excusing one another.)

¹⁶ Thus will it be on the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.

¹⁷ Behold, thou art called a Jew and rest in the law and make thy boast of God,

¹⁸ and knowest His will and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed from the law,

¹⁹ and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

²¹ Thou therefore who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

²² Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

²³ Thou that makest thy boast in the law, dost thou dishonor God through breaking the law?

²⁴ For, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you,” as it is written.

²⁵ For circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the law; but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶ Therefore if the Uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷ And shall not uncircumcision, which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge thee, who having the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh.

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and whose circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter, and whose praise is not from men, but from God.