Summary: <div class="poetry"> <p><strong> Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in Psalm 51. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/psalm-51/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/psalm-51/</a>.</strong></p> <p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Ps-51-1"><span class="chapternum">1 </span>Have mercy on me, O God,</span></span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-1">according to your steadfast love;</span></span><br> <span class="text Ps-51-1">according to your abundant mercy</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-1">blot out my transgressions.</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-14694" class="text Ps-51-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-2">and cleanse me from my sin!</span></span></p> </div> <div class="poetry top-1"> <p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14695" class="text Ps-51-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>For I know my transgressions,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-3">and my sin is ever before me.</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-14696" class="text Ps-51-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Against you, you only, have I sinned</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-4">and done what is evil in your sight,</span></span><br> <span class="text Ps-51-4">so that you may be justified in your words</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-4">and blameless in your judgment.</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-14697" class="text Ps-51-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-5">and in sin did my mother conceive me.</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-14698" class="text Ps-51-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-6">and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.</span></span></p> </div> <div class="poetry top-1"> <p class="line"><span id="en-ESV-14699" class="text Ps-51-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-7">wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-14700" class="text Ps-51-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Let me hear joy and gladness;</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-8">let the bones that you have broken rejoice.</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-14701" class="text Ps-51-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>Hide your face from my sins,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-9">and blot out all my iniquities.</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-14702" class="text Ps-51-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Create in me a clean heart, O God,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-10">and renew a right spirit within me.</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-14703" class="text Ps-51-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Cast me not away from your presence,</span><br> <span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-51-11">and take not your Holy Spirit from me.</span></span><br> <span id="en-ESV-1470"></span></p> </div>
