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 1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin *is* ever before me.

 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done *this* evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, *and* be clear when thou judgest.

 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.*

 6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden *part* thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; *that* the bones *which* thou hast broken may rejoice.

 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.*

 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

 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.
 
[Psalms 50](/study/psalms/50) [Psalms 52](/study/psalms/52)

## Commentary

 To verse 1
 
**Title. A Psalm.** Hebrew. *mizmor.* See App-65 . 

**when Nathan, &c.** See [2 Samuel 11:2](/kjv/2-samuel/11/2) ; [2 Samuel 12:1](/kjv/2-samuel/12/1) . David's utterance when he lay all night upon the earth as a *penitent* ([2 Samuel 12:16](/kjv/2-samuel/12/16) ). Compare his utterance when he "sat before the LORD "as a *worshipper* ([2 Samuel 7:18-29](/kjv/2-samuel/7/18-29) ), and when he "stood upon his feet" as a *servant* ([1 Chronicles 28:2-10](/kjv/1-chronicles/28/2-10) ). 

**Have mercy upon me** = Be gracious or favourable unto me. 

**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . 

**lovingkindness:** or, grace. 

**blot out** = erase, as a debt from a book ([Exodus 32:32](/kjv/exodus/32/32) , [Exodus 32:33](/kjv/exodus/32/33) .[Numbers 5:23](/kjv/numbers/5/23) .[Num 69:28](/kjv/-num/69/28) ), or wipe out so as to remove ([2 Kings 21:13](/kjv/2-kings/21/13) .[Isaiah 44:22](/kjv/isaiah/44/22); [Isaiah 44:22](/kjv/isaiah/44/22) ). 

**transgressions.** Hebrew. *pasha'.* App-44 .

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