Psalm 51:10-54:7

English Standard Version

¹³ Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
    and sinners will ^(F)return to you.
¹⁴ Deliver me from ^(G)bloodguiltiness, O God,
    O ^(H)God of my salvation,
    and ^(I)my tongue will sing aloud of your ^(J)righteousness.
¹⁵ O Lord, open my lips,
    and my mouth will declare your praise.
^16 (K)For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
    you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are ^(L)a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

^18 (M)Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
    ^(N)build up the walls of Jerusalem;
¹⁹ then will you delight in ^(O)right sacrifices,
    in burnt offerings and ^(P)whole burnt offerings;
    then bulls will be offered on your altar.

⁵ But God will break you down forever;
    he will snatch and ^(V)tear you from your tent;
    he will uproot you from ^(W)the land of the living. Selah
⁶ The righteous shall ^(X)see and fear,
    and shall ^(Y)laugh at him, saying,
⁷ “See the man who would not make
    God his refuge,
but ^(Z)trusted in the abundance of his riches
    and sought refuge in his own destruction!”^[c]

⁸ But I am like ^(AA)a green olive tree
    in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
    forever and ever.
⁹ I will thank you forever,
    because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, ^(AB)for it is good,
    in the presence of the ^(AC)godly.

² God looks down from heaven
    on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,^[e]
    who seek after God.

³ They have all fallen away;
    together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
    not even one.

⁴ Have those who work evil no knowledge,
    who eat up my people as they eat bread,
    and do not call upon God?

⁵ There they are, in great terror,
    ^(AF)where there is no terror!
For God ^(AG)scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;
    you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.

⁶ Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
    When God restores the fortunes of his people,
    let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

^3 (AL)For ^(AM)strangers^[g] have risen against me;
    ruthless men ^(AN)seek my life;
    they do not set God before themselves. Selah

⁴ Behold, ^(AO)God is my helper;
    the Lord is the upholder of my life.
⁵ He will return the evil to my enemies;
    in your ^(AP)faithfulness ^(AQ)put an end to them.

⁶ With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you;
    I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, ^(AR)for it is good.
⁷ For he has delivered me from every trouble,
    and my eye has ^(AS)looked in triumph on my enemies.