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PSAL. LI.
MErcy, Lord, mercy grant to me
Of thy great goodnesse, and free grace:
And, as thy mercies many be,
Blot out my faults, my sins deface.
[verse 2] Defil'd I am with spots of sin,
O throughly from them wash thou me;
Foule mine iniquities have bin,
From them let me be cleans'd by thee.
[verse 3] For I with griefe, and sins deep sense
Acknowledge mine iniquities;
My loathsome sin, and mine offence
Do still appeare before mine eies.
[verse 4] Against thee only sin'd have I,
And done this evill in thy sight;
Which doth thy sayings justifie,
And cleare thee in thy judgments right.
[verse 5] Behold, thou know'st, and I confesse
My shape in sin I did receive;
And me defil'd with wickednesse
At first my mother did conceive.
[verse 6] Behold, thou that dost search the heart,
Truth in the inward parts dost love;
And thou shalt in the hidden part
Make me know wisdome from above:
[verse 7] With sprinkling hyssope purge thou me,
And clean I shall be in thy sight;
Wash me, and, being wash't by thee,
Above the snow I shall be white.
[verse 8] Of joy and gladnesse make me heare
Within my soule the pleasant voice;
That so the bones which broken were,
Made whole by thee may now rejoyce•…•…