Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool!
You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.
When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions.
He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!”
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.
And Shimei said as he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man! The Lord has avenged on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.”
The Lord answered and said to his people, “Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
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