12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation(A)
    and grant me a willing spirit,(B) to sustain me.(C)

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,(D)
    so that sinners(E) will turn back to you.(F)
14 Deliver me(G) from the guilt of bloodshed,(H) O God,
    you who are God my Savior,(I)
    and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.(J)
15 Open my lips, Lord,(K)
    and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 You do not delight in sacrifice,(L) or I would bring it;
    you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 My sacrifice,(M) O God, is[a] a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart(N)
    you, God, will not despise.

18 May it please you to prosper Zion,(O)
    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.(P)
19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,(Q)
    in burnt offerings(R) offered whole;
    then bulls(S) will be offered on your altar.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:17 Or The sacrifices of God are

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 shew 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.

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