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Create in me a clean heart, O God

(2 Samuel 12:1-12)
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O God, act mercifully toward me because you love me faithfully; because you are very merciful, forget the ways that I disobeyed you!
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Make me acceptable to you again, even though I did wrong things; forgive the guilt of my sin and accept me.
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I say that because I know the ways that I have disobeyed you; I cannot forget them.
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You, you only, are the one that I have really sinned against, and you have seen the evil things that I have done. When you say that I am guilty, you are right, and when you judge me, you justly say that I deserve to be punished.
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I have been a sinner since the day that I was born; truly, I have been like that since my mother conceived me.
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What you desire is that in my inner being I desire what is true in order that you can teach me in my inner being how to act wisely.
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Forgive the guilt of my sins, and after that happens, I will be completely acceptable to you; if you forgive me, then I will be absolutely right with you.
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Allow me to rejoice again; you have made me immeasurably sad, but now let me rejoice again.
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Do not continue to remember the sins that I have committed; forget the evil things that I have done.
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O God, make me want to do the things that you approve of. Make me want to do only what is right.
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Do not reject me as one of your people, and do not make your holy Spirit leave me.
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Make me happy again by rescuing me from my guilt, and always help me by making me sincerely want to obey you.
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If you do that, I will teach other sinners what you want them to do; they will repent and obey you.
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O God, you are the one who saves me; forgive me for being guilty of causing someone who was not my enemy to die. When you do that, I will sing joyfully about your being very good and righteous.
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O Yahweh, help me to speak in order that I may praise you.
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When people only bring sacrifices to you, that does not please you. If that were enough to please you, I would do the same. But you are not pleased with burnt offerings alone.
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The sacrifice that you really want is for people to be truly humble and sorry for having sinned. O God, you will not refuse that kind of sacrifice.
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O God, be good to the people who live in Jerusalem; make them able to rebuild the city walls.
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When that happens, they will bring you the proper sacrifices: normal animal sacrifices and sacrifices to be completely burned. They will burn young bulls on your altar, and you will be pleased.
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Create in me a clean heart, O God

(2 Samuel 12:1-12)
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Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
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Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
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For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
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Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
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Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
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Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
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Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
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Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
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Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
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Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
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Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
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Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
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Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you.
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Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
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Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
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For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
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Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
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Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
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