1. For the music director: a psalm of David,
2. when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.
3. Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your mercy. According to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
4. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
5. For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.
6. Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are just when You speak, and blameless when You judge.
7. Behold, I was born in iniquity and in sin when my mother conceived me.