1-3. Generous in love—God, give grace!Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record.Scrub away my guilt,soak out my sins in your laundry.I know how bad I’ve been;my sins are staring me down.
4-6. You’re the One I’ve violated, and you’ve seenit all, seen the full extent of my evil.You have all the facts before you;whatever you decide about me is fair.I’ve been out of step with you for a long time,in the wrong since before I was born.What you’re after is truth from the inside out.Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.
7-15. Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean,scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life.Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,set these once-broken bones to dancing.Don’t look too close for blemishes,give me a clean bill of health.God, make a fresh start in me,shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.Don’t throw me out with the trash,or fail to breathe holiness in me.Bring me back from gray exile,put a fresh wind in my sails!Give me a job teaching rebels your waysso the lost can find their way home.Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God,and I’ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways.Unbutton my lips, dear God;I’ll let loose with your praise.
16-17. Going through the motions doesn’t please you,a flawless performance is nothing to you.I learned God-worshipwhen my pride was shattered.Heart-shattered lives ready for lovedon’t for a moment escape God’s notice.
18-19. Make Zion the place you delight in,repair Jerusalem’s broken-down walls.Then you’ll get real worship from us,acts of worship small and large,Including all the bullsthey can heave onto your altar!