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Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

Psalms 51:2

In 11 translations

BSB
Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
KJV
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
WEB
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
ASV
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
LSV
Thoroughly wash me from my iniquity, || And cleanse me from my sin,
YLT
Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,
DBY
Wash me fully from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
DRC50:4
Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
GNV
Wash me throughly from mine iniquitie, and clense me from my sinne.
JPS51:4
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
LXXE50:4
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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  • Written (Ketiv): הַרְבֵּה (“greatly”). Read aloud (Qere): הֶ֭רֶב (“increase”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • Leningrad Codex reads הֶ֭רֶבה; read aloud (Qere) reads הֶ֭רֶב (“increase”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC51:4
הרבה כַּבְּסֵ֣נִי מֵעֲוֺנִ֑י וּֽמֵחַטָּאתִ֥י טַהֲרֵֽנִי׃KJV:Ps.51.2Read aloud as (qere): הֶ֭רֶב
LXX-Br50:4
Ἐπιπλεῖον πλῦνόν με ἀπὸ τῆς ἀνομίας μου, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας μου καθάρισόν με.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 John 1:7–9But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in…
  • Hebrews 10:21–22and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with…
  • Ezekiel 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
  • Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
  • Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
  • Isaiah 1:16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
  • Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
  • Acts 22:16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
  • 1 Corinthians 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
  • Revelation 7:14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
  • Zechariah 13:1“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
  • Psalms 19:12Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
  • Hebrews 9:13–14For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 51:4 in some Bibles
  • 51:2 in most Bibles

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