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Upon recognizing our sin, we trust ourselves to God’s mercy and unfailing love.

BibleGateway: Psalm 51:1-6

ESV Text: Psalm 51:1-6


KJV Text:

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     1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.(KJV)


Hymn: TLH 166:
Savior, When in Dust to Thee

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1. Savior, when in dust to Thee 
Low we bow the adoring knee, 
When, repentant, to the skies 
Scarce we lift our weeping eyes, 
Oh, by all Thy pains and woe 
Suffered once for man below, 
Bending from Thy throne on high, 
Hear our solemn litany! 

2. By Thy helpless infant years, 
By Thy life of want and tears, 
By Thy days of sore distress 
In the savage wilderness, 
By the dread, mysterious hour 
Of the insulting Tempter’s power, 
Turn, O turn, a favoring eye, 
Hear our solemn litany! 

3.By Thine hour of dire despair, 
By Thine agony of prayer, 
By the cross, the nail, the thorn, 
Piercing spear, and torturing scorn, 
By the gloom that veiled the skies 
O’er the dreadful sacrifice, 
Listen to our humble cry, 
Hear our solemn litany! 

4. By Thy deep expiring groan, 
By the sad sepulchral stone, 
By the vault whose dark abode 
Held in vain the rising God, 
Oh, from earth to heaven restored, 
Mighty, reascended Lord, 
Listen, listen, to the cry 
Of our solemn litany! 


Hymn: LSB 418 O Lord, throughout These Forty Days
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