051:009 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. 051:010 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. 051:011 Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy Spirit from me. 051:012 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit. 051:013 Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you. 051:014 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness. 051:015 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise. 051:016 For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. 051:017 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 051:018 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. 051:019 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. 052:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's house.">> Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually. 052:002 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 052:003 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. 052:004 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. 052:005 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. 052:006 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying, 052:007 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness." 052:008 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever. 052:009 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints. 053:001 <<For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A contemplation by David.>> The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. 053:002 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God. 053:003 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one. 053:004 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God? 053:005 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God