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World English Bible

Psalm 51 (WEBP)

[1] Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
[2] Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
[3] For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
[4] Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
[5] Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
[6] Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
[7] Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
[8] Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
[9] Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
[10] Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
[11] Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
[12] Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
[13] Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you.
[14] Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
[15] Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
[16] For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
[17] The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
[18] Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
[19] Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Psalm 51 (KJVS)

[1] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
[2] Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
[3] For I acknowledge my transgressions: And my sin is ever before me.
[4] Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
[5] Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
[6] Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
[7] Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
[8] Make me to hear joy and gladness; That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
[9] Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.
[10] Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.
[11] Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy spirit from me.
[12] Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with thy free spirit.
[13] Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; And sinners shall be converted unto thee.
[14] Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
[15] O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
[16] For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering.
[17] The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
[18] Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
[19] 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.

Psalm 51:5 Heb. warm me
Psalm 51:10 Or, a constant spirit
Psalm 51:14 Heb. bloods
Psalm 51:16 Or, that I should give it

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Psalm 51 (BYZ)

[1] Εἰς () τὸ () τέλος· () ψαλμὸς () τῷ () Δαυιδ () ἐν () τῷ () ἐλθεῖν () πρὸς () αὐτὸν () Ναθαν () τὸν () προφήτην, () ἡνίκα () εἰσῆλθεν () πρὸς () Βηρσαβεε. Ἐλέησόν () με, () ὁ () θεός, () κατὰ () τὸ () μέγα () ἔλεός () σου () καὶ () κατὰ () τὸ () πλῆθος () τῶν () οἰκτιρμῶν () σου () ἐξάλειψον () τὸ () ἀνόμημά μου· ()
[2] ἐπὶ () πλεῖον () πλῦνόν () με () ἀπὸ () τῆς () ἀνομίας () μου () καὶ () ἀπὸ () τῆς () ἁμαρτίας () μου () καθάρισόν () με. ()
[3] Ὅτι () τὴν () ἀνομίαν () μου () ἐγὼ () γινώσκω, () καὶ () ἡ () ἁμαρτία () μου () ἐνώπιόν () μού () ἐστιν () διὰ () παντός. ()
[4] Σοὶ () μόνῳ () ἥμαρτον () καὶ () τὸ () πονηρὸν () ἐνώπιόν () σου () ἐποίησα, () ὅπως () ἂν () δικαιωθῇς () ἐν () τοῖς () λόγοις () σου () καὶ () νικήσῃς () ἐν () τῷ () κρίνεσθαί () σε. ()
[5] Ἰδοὺ () γὰρ () ἐν () ἀνομίαις () συνελήμφθην, () καὶ () ἐν () ἁμαρτίαις () ἐκίσσησέν με () ἡ () μήτηρ () μου. ()
[6] Ἰδοὺ () γὰρ () ἀλήθειαν () ἠγάπησας, () τὰ () ἄδηλα () καὶ () τὰ () κρύφια τῆς () σοφίας () σου () ἐδήλωσάς () μοι. ()
[7] Ῥαντιεῖς () με () ὑσσώπῳ, () καὶ () καθαρισθήσομαι· () πλυνεῖς () με, () καὶ () ὑπὲρ () χιόνα () λευκανθήσομαι. ()
[8] Ἀκουτιεῖς με () ἀγαλλίασιν () καὶ () εὐφροσύνην· () ἀγαλλιάσονται () ὀστᾶ () τεταπεινωμένα. ()
[9] Ἀπόστρεψον () τὸ () πρόσωπόν () σου () ἀπὸ () τῶν () ἁμαρτιῶν () μου () καὶ () πάσας () τὰς () ἀνομίας () μου () ἐξάλειψον. ()
[10] Καρδίαν () καθαρὰν () κτίσον () ἐν () ἐμοί, () ὁ () θεός, () καὶ () πνεῦμα () εὐθὲς ἐγκαίνισον () ἐν () τοῖς () ἐγκάτοις μου. ()
[11] Μὴ () ἀπορρίψῃς () με () ἀπὸ () τοῦ () προσώπου () σου () καὶ () τὸ () πνεῦμα () τὸ () ἅγιόν σου () μὴ () ἀντανέλῃς ἀπ’ () ἐμοῦ. ()
[12] Ἀπόδος () μοι () τὴν () ἀγαλλίασιν () τοῦ () σωτηρίου () σου () καὶ () πνεύματι () ἡγεμονικῷ στήρισόν () με. ()
[13] Διδάξω () ἀνόμους () τὰς () ὁδούς () σου, () καὶ () ἀσεβεῖς () ἐπὶ () σὲ () ἐπιστρέψουσιν. ()
[14] Ῥῦσαί () με () ἐξ () αἱμάτων, () ὁ () θεὸς () ὁ () θεὸς () τῆς () σωτηρίας () μου· () ἀγαλλιάσεται () ἡ () γλῶσσά () μου () τὴν () δικαιοσύνην () σου. ()
[15] Κύριε, () τὰ () χείλη () μου () ἀνοίξεις, () καὶ () τὸ () στόμα () μου () ἀναγγελεῖ () τὴν () αἴνεσίν () σου. ()
[16] Ὅτι () εἰ () ἠθέλησας () θυσίαν, () ἔδωκα () ἄν· () ὁλοκαυτώματα () οὐκ () εὐδοκήσεις. ()
[17] Θυσία () τῷ () θεῷ () πνεῦμα () συντετριμμένον, () καρδίαν () συντετριμμένην () καὶ () τεταπεινωμένην () ὁ () θεὸς () οὐκ () ἐξουθενώσει. ()
[18] Ἀγάθυνον, κύριε, () ἐν () τῇ () εὐδοκίᾳ () σου () τὴν () Σιων, () καὶ () οἰκοδομηθήτω () τὰ () τείχη () Ιερουσαλημ· ()
[19] τότε () εὐδοκήσεις () θυσίαν () δικαιοσύνης, () ἀναφορὰν καὶ () ὁλοκαυτώματα· () τότε () ἀνοίσουσιν () ἐπὶ () τὸ () θυσιαστήριόν () σου () μόσχους. ()

Psalm 51:1 Originally verses 50:1–3.
Psalm 51:2 Originally verse 50:4.
Psalm 51:3 Originally verse 50:5.
Psalm 51:4 Originally verse 50:6.
Psalm 51:5 Originally verse 50:7.
Psalm 51:6 Originally verse 50:8.
Psalm 51:7 Originally verse 50:9.
Psalm 51:8 Originally verse 50:10.
Psalm 51:9 Originally verse 50:11.
Psalm 51:10 Originally verse 50:12.
Psalm 51:11 Originally verse 50:13.
Psalm 51:12 Originally verse 50:14.
Psalm 51:13 Originally verse 50:15.
Psalm 51:14 Originally verse 50:16.
Psalm 51:15 Originally verse 50:17.
Psalm 51:16 Originally verse 50:18.
Psalm 51:17 Originally verse 50:19.
Psalm 51:18 Originally verse 50:20.
Psalm 51:19 Originally verse 50:21.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.