Psalm 51

A Prayer for Restoration

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bathsheba.(A)

Be gracious to me, God,
according to Your faithful love;
according to Your abundant compassion,
blot out my rebellion.(B)

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Turn Your face away[a] from my sins
and blot out all my guilt.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:9 Lit Hide Your face

25 “It is I who sweep away your transgressions(A)
for My own sake(B)
and remember your sins no more.(C)

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22 I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,(A)
and your sins like a mist.
Return to Me,(B)
for I have redeemed you.(C)

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14 He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.(A)

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