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 celebration again;let the bones you crushed rejoice once more.
9. Hide your face from my sins;wipe away all my guilty deeds!
10. Create a clean heart for me, God;put a new, faithful spirit deep inside me!
11. Please don’t throw me out of your presence;please don’t take your holy spirit away from me.
12. Return the joy of your salvation to meand sustain me with a willing spirit.
13. Then I will teach wrongdoers your ways,and sinners will come back to you.
14. Deliver me from violence, God, God of my salvation,so that my tongue can sing of your righteousness.
15. Lord, open my lips,and my mouth will proclaim your praise.
16. You don’t want sacrifices.If I gave an entirely burned offering,you wouldn’t be pleased.
17. A broken spirit is my sacrifice, God.You won’t despise a heart, God, that is broken and crushed.
18. Do good things for Zion by your favor.Rebuild Jerusalem’s walls.
19. Then you will again want sacrifices of righteousness—entirely burned offerings and complete offerings.Then bulls will again be sacrificed on your altar.