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Psalm 51:6-14 (OT, p. 520)

6 You desire truth in the inward being;
    therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
    wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
    let the bones that you have crushed rejoice. 
9 Hide your face from my sins, 
    and blot out all my iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
    and put a new and right spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from your presence,
    and do not take your holy spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
    and sustain in me a willing spirit.

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
    and sinners will return to you.
14 Deliver me from bloodshed, O God,
    O God of my salvation,
    and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.

Anne Locke: Translator and Poet

Show mercy, Lord, not unto me alone: But stretch thy favor and thy pleased will, To spread thy bounty and thy grace upon Zion, for Zion is thy holy hill: That thy Jerusalem with mighty wall May be enclosed under thy defense, And builded so that it may never fall By mining fraud or mighty violence. Defend thy church, Lord, and advance it so, So in despite of tyranny to stand, That trembling at thy power the world may know It is upholden by thy mighty hand: That Zion and Jerusalem may be A safe abode for them that honor thee.

Have mercy, God, for your great mercy's sake. O God, our God, unto our shame we say, Being fled from you, so as we dread to take Your name in wretched mouths, and fear to pray Or ask the mercy which we have abused. But, God of mercy, let us come to you Not for justice, since justly we're accused And that word, "Justice" so rings true, That scarce we dare your mercy ask again. But mercy, Lord, yet suffer us to crave. Mercy is yours: Let us not cry in vain, Your great mercy for our great faults to save. Have mercy, God, pity our penitence With greater mercy than our great offence.