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77 Let your mercy come to me, that I may live,
    for your law is my delight.

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41 Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord,
    your salvation according to your promise.(A)

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174 I long for your salvation, O Lord,
    and your law is my delight.

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47 I find my delight in your commandments
    because I love them.

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24 Your decrees are my delight;
    they are my counselors.(A)

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but their delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and on his law they meditate day and night.(A)

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10 This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
    after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds
    and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.(A)
11 And they shall not teach one another
    or say to each other,[a] ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest.(B)
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
    and I will remember their sins[b] no more.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.11 Or teach each one their fellow-citizen and each one their sibling, saying
  2. 8.12 Other ancient authorities add and their lawless deeds

18 Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of your great mercies.(A)

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22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,[a]
    his mercies never come to an end;(A)
23 they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.22 Syr Tg: Heb Lord, we are not cut off

Psalm 51

Prayer for Cleansing and Pardon

To the leader. A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Have mercy on me, O God,
    according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy,
    blot out my transgressions.(A)
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
    and cleanse me from my sin.(B)

For I know my transgressions,
    and my sin is ever before me.(C)

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