Have mercy upon me, O God, According to thy grace

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Have mercy upon me, O God According to thy grace: According to thy mercies great, My trespasses deface.

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O wash me throughly from my guilt, And from my sin me clear.

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For I my trespass know, my sins Before me still appear.

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'Gainst thee, thee only have I sinn'd, This ill done thee before: When thou speak'st, just thou art, and clear When thou dost judge therefore,

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Behold, how in iniquity I did my shape receive: Also my mother that me bar In sin did me conceive.

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Behold thou dost desire the truth Within the inward part: And thou shalt make me wisdom know In secret of mine heart

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With hyssop do me purify, I shall be cleansed so: O wash thou me, and then shall I Be whiter than the snow.

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Of joy and gladness make thou me To hear again the voice: That so the bones which thou hast broke, May chearfully rejoyce.

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From the beholding of my sin Hide thou away thy face; Likewise all mine iniquities O do thou clean deface.

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Clean heart, O God in me create. Also a spirit right

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In me renew. O cast me not Away out of thy sight: Nor from me take thy holy sp'rit.

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Restore the joy to me Of thy salvation, and uphold Me with thy spirit free.

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Then will I teach thy ways to those That work iniquity, And by this means shall sinners be Converted unto thee.

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O God, God of my heath, set me Free from blood-guiltiness; And so my tongue shall joyfully Sing of thy righteousness.

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Lord, open thou my lips, and forth My mouth thy praise shall show,

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For thou desir'st not sacrifice, I would it else bestow; Burnt off'rings thou delight'st not in: Of God the sacrifice A broken sp'rit: a contrite heart God,thou wilt not despise.

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In thy good pleasure O do good Unto thy Sion hill: The walls of thy Jerusalem, O do thou build up still.

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The sacrifice of justice shall Pleas thee with burnt off'ring, And whole burnt off'ring: then they shall Calves to thine altar bring.