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.
8. Surely You desire truth in the inner being. Make me know wisdom inwardly.
9. Cleanse me with hyssop and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.