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¹ Haue mercy vpon me (o God) after thy goodnes, & acordinge vnto thy greate mercies, do awaye myne offences.² Wash me well fro my wickednesse, & clense me fro my synne.³ For I knowlege my fautes, and my synne is euer before me.⁴ Agaynst the only, agaynst the haue I synned, and done euell in thy sight: that thou mightest be iustified in thy saynges, and shuldest ouercome when thou art iudged.⁵ Beholde, I was borne in wickednesse, and in synne hath my mother conceaued me.⁶ But lo, thou hast a pleasure in the treuth, and hast shewed me secrete wy?dome.

⁷ O reconcile me with Isope, and I shal be clene: wash thou me, and I shalbe whyter then snowe.⁸ Oh let me heare of ioye and gladnesse, that the bones which thou hast broken, maye reioyse.⁹ Turne thy face fro my synnes, and put out all my my?dedes.¹⁰ Make me a clene hert (o God) and renue a right sprete within me.¹¹ Cast me not awaie from thy presence, and take not thy holy sprete fro me.¹² O geue me the comforte of thy helpe agayne, and stablish me with thy fre sprete.¹³ Then shal I teach thy wayes vnto the wicked, that synners maye be conuerted vnto the.

¹⁴ Delyuer me from bloudegyltynesse o God, thou that art the God of my health, that my tonge maye prayse thy rightuousnesse.¹⁵ Open my lippes (O LORDE) that my mouth maye shewe thy prayse.¹⁶ For yf thou haddest pleasure in sacrifice, I wolde geue it the: but thou delytest not in burntofferynges.¹⁷ The sacrifice of God is a troubled sprete, a broken and a cotrite hert (o God) shalt thou not despise.¹⁸ O be fauorable and gracious vnto Sion, that the walles of Ierusalem maye be buylded.¹⁹ For then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of rightuousnesse, with the burntofferynges and oblacions: then shal they laye bullockes vpon thine aulter.