Verse 18
Psalms 51:18
Noah Webster Bible
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Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֤י לֹא תַחְפֹּ֣ץ זֶ֣בַח וְ/אֶתֵּ֑נָה ע֝וֹלָ֗ה לֹ֣א תִרְצֶֽה
English Translation
For you do not delight in sacrifice, and if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.
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Chapter 51 Context
1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in t...
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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 ever before me.
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Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mayest be justifi...
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Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know w...
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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
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8
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
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9
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
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10
Create in me a clean heart, O God (Elohim); and renew a right spirit within me.
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11
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
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12
Restore to me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
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13
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted to thee.
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14
Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God (Elohim), thou God (Elohim) of my salvation: and my tongue s...
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15
O LORD, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
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For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I give it : thou delightest not in burnt-offering.
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The sacrifices of God (Elohim) are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God (Elohim), t...
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Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
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Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt-offering and whole burnt...
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