Cry for Forgiveness

Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;

according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.


Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.


For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.


Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight;

so you are right in your verdict
and justified when you judge.


Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.


Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place.


Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.


Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.


Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.


Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.


Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will turn back to you.

Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God,
you who are God my Savior,
and my tounge iwll sing of your righteousness.

Open my lips, Lord,
and my mouth will declare your praise.

You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burn offerings.

My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise.

May it please you to prosper Zion,
to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,
in burn offerings offered whole;
then bulls will be offered on your alter.

Psalm 51

This was David's cry for forgiveness after having an affair with Bathsheba and murdering her husband Uriah soon after. David understood to be truely forgiven one has to have a broken heart over sin. David also mentions to renew fellowship with God one must have a clean heart. We should cry out for forgiveness in the same desperate way David does in this Psalm. When we do so God will first break our hearts so that HE can put the pieces back together according to his will.