Psalm 51 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

² Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

³ 0 Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

⁴ 1 Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

⁵ 2 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

⁶ 3 I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee.

⁷ 4 Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

⁸ 5 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

⁹ 6 For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

¹⁰ 7 A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

¹¹ 8 Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

¹² 9 Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and whole burnt offerings: then shall they lay calves upon thy altar.

¹³ Unto the end, understanding for David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul David went to the house of Achimelech. Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?

¹⁴ All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

¹⁵ Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

¹⁶ Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.

¹⁷ Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

¹⁸ The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say:

¹⁹ Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.