The More You Know
Growing up, I remember singing "Create in me a clean heart..." every Sunday morning when the ushers took the golden plates up to the Pastor.
While working on an OT presentation, I rediscovered the text comes from Psalm 51:10-12. How much more effective of a point would have been made if they included verses 1-9?
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgement.
Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.
You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
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 crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
And even more so if they included the "subtitle." A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
While working on an OT presentation, I rediscovered the text comes from Psalm 51:10-12. How much more effective of a point would have been made if they included verses 1-9?
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgement.
Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.
You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
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 crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
And even more so if they included the "subtitle." A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
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Damn Freud!