O God, to me let mercy flow

Verse 1

O God, to me let mercy flow, For thou delight'st in acts of grace; Thy many tender mercies show; And all my trespasses erase.

Verse 2

Me thoroughly wash from all my stains; And from my guilt me purify.

Verse 3

I own my fault; my sin remains, With piercing grief, before mine eye.

Verse 4

I've sinned against thee, thee alone, And done this evil in thy sight; Thy sentence, Lord, is just, I own, Thy heaviest judgments would be right.

Verse 5

I'm born defiled, in every part; My mother me conceived in sin.

Verse 6

Thou, Lord, desirest truth of heart; O make me wisdom know within.

Verse 7

With sprinkling hyssop purge my soul, Then shall I pure and spotless grow; O wash away my stains, most foul, I then shall whiter be than snow.

Verse 8

Let me, with joy, hear thy kind word; So shall the bones thou'st broken shout.

Verse 9

Hide from my sins thy face, O Lord; And all my many crimes blot out.

Verse 10

Create, O God, in me clean heart; My spirit right, within me, make.

Verse 11

Drive me not from thy face apart; Nor thy good Spirit from me take.

Verse 12

Salvation's joy, to me, renew; With thy free Spirit me sustain.

Verse 13

Transgressors then, thy ways, I'll show; And they shall turn to God again.

Verse 14

Deliver me from guilt of blood, O God, thou my salvation's God; My joyful tongue shall then sing loud. And spread thy gracious acts abroad.

Verse 15

O Lord, my closed lips inspire; Then shall my mouth thy praises sing.

Verse 16

No sacrifice, though burnt with fire, Could please; or else I would it bring.

Verse 17

A broken spirit, in God's sight, Is the most pleasing sacrifice; An heart that's broken, and contrite, O God, thou never wilt despise.

Verse 18

Be Zion's sons with goodness filled, In thy good pleasure succor them; Defend thy church, and firmly build The walls of thy Jerusalem.

Verse 19

Then shalt thou, with right sacrifice, Be pleased, while saints shall rhee invoke; Then, from burnt offerings, steams shall rise, And bullocks on thine altars smoke.