Psalms 51:1-5

¹For the leader. A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet come to him after he had been with Bathsheba. In your kindness, O God, be gracious to me, in your own great pity blot out my transgressions.

²Wash me clean of my guilt, make me pure of my sin.

³For well I know my transgressions, my sin is ever before me.

⁴Against you, only you, have I sinned, and done that which is wrong in your sight: you therefore are just when you speak, and clear when you utter judgment.

⁵See! In guilt was I brought to the birth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.