The King James Version Bible

Psalms 51:8-19

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

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

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

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

  5. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

  6. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

  7. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

  8. O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

  9. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

  10. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

  11. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

  12. 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.