Psalms 51:2-13

²Moreover wash thou me from my wickedness; and cleanse thou me from my sin.

³For I acknowledge my wickedness; and my sin is evermore against me.

⁴I have sinned to thee alone, and I have done evil before thee; that thou be justified in thy words, and overcome when thou art deemed.

⁵For lo! I was conceived in wicked-nesses; and my mother conceived me in sins.

⁶For lo! thou lovedest truth; thou hast showed to me the uncertain things, and privy things of thy wisdom.

⁷Lord, sprinkle thou me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed; wash thou me, and I shall be made white more than snow.

⁸Give thou joy, and gladness to mine hearing; and bones made meek shall full out make joy.

⁹Turn away thy face from my sins; and do away all my wickednesses.

¹⁰God, make thou a clean heart in me; and make thou new a rightful spirit in my entrails.

¹¹Cast thou me not away from thy face; and take thou not away from me thine holy spirit.

¹²Give thou to me the gladness of thine health; and confirm thou me with the principal spirit.

¹³I shall teach wicked men thy ways; and unfaithful men shall be converted to thee.