Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
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Have mercy upon me, O God,
According to Your lovingkindness;
According to the multitude of Your tender mercies,
a Blot out my transgressions.
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b Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin.
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For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
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c Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil d in Your sight -
e That You may be found just when You speak,
And blameless when You judge.
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f Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.
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Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.
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g Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be h whiter than snow.
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Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken i may rejoice.
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Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my iniquities.
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j Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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Do not cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your k Holy Spirit from me.
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Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your l generous Spirit.
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Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners shall be converted to You.
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Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
The God of my salvation,
And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
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O Lord, open my lips,
And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
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For m You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You do not delight in burnt offering.
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n The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart -
These, O God, You will not despise.
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Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.
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Then You shall be pleased with o the sacrifices of righteousness,
With burnt offering and whole burnt offering;
Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.
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Cross References
Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, And like a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Acts 3:19
Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
Colossians 2:14
Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 33:8
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me.
Ezekiel 36:33
Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.
Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 12:13
So David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
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Cross References
Luke 5:21
And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?
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Romans 3:4
Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.
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Cross References
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
Psalms 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned -
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Cross References
Exodus 12:22
And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.
Leviticus 14:4
Then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
Numbers 19:18
A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead, or a grave.
Hebrews 9:19
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.
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Cross References
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
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Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.
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Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?
Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
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Cross References
Luke 11:13
"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"
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2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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1 Samuel 15:22
So Samuel said: "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
Psalms 50:8 - 14
I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or your burnt offerings, Which are continually before Me.
Micah 6:6 - 8
With what shall I come before the LORD, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?
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Cross References
Psalms 34:18
The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 66:2
For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist," Says the LORD. "But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.
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Cross References
Psalms 4:5
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in the LORD.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.