If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.} Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

He that instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reproveth a wicked man getteth to himself a blot.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;