Forbarma tich gud offuer mich
A Cry for Cleansing
The penitent acknowledges their inherent sinfulness and pleads for God's mercy and spiritual purification.
Have mercy on me, God, because of your great compassion and the grace within you. Take away my wrongdoing; wash away my sin and make me clean, for I know my failings well. Against you alone have I sinned, so that your words may be proved true. See, God, I was conceived in sin; in sin my mother conceived me. Yet you have loved truth and taught me your hidden wisdom. Sprinkle me with cleansing hyssop, and I will be pure, white as snow. Let me hear joy and gladness, so that the bones you have crushed may rejoice.
Renewal of the Spirit
A direct petition for a clean heart and the restoration of the Holy Spirit's presence.
Turn your face away from my sins and wipe away all my guilt. Create a clean heart in me and renew a right spirit within me. Don't cast me away from you or take your good Spirit from me. Let me know again the joy of your salvation and strengthen me with a willing spirit.
Proclaiming God's Righteousness
The redeemed soul commits to teaching others and offering the true sacrifice of a contrite heart.
I want to teach your ways to those who do wrong, so they'll turn to you and give you praise and honor. O Lord, God of my salvation, deliver me from my sins; then my tongue, at your command, will proclaim your righteousness. If you had delighted in sacrifices, I would surely have offered them to you; but the sacrifice you have taught us to bring is a sorrowful heart. Do good to Zion, my Lord, and Jerusalem, your city, will be built up by your word; there pure sacrifices will be offered to you.✦✦
Read the original Latin
FOrbarma tich gud offuer mich/ for tijn stora barmhertigheet/ Och for then nådh som är j tich/ tagh bortt mijn oretferdigheet/ twå aff mijn synd och gör mich reen/ ty mijn brist iach wel kenna kan/ moot tich haffuer iach syndat alleen/ at tijn ord skola bliffua sann
See gud j synd är iach aflat/ j synd aflade moder mijn/ sy sanning haffuer tu elskat/ tijn hemligheet gaff tu mich in/ stenck mich med helsosam Hysop/ som sniö warder iach hwijt och reen/ låt mich höra glädi och håp/ så förgdas mijn förskrecta been
Ifrå mijn synd wendt titt ansict/ och mijn synd tagh bort alla slett/ itt reent hierta skapa j mich/ gör j mich andan ny och rett/ kasta mich icke tich ifrå/ och tagh ey bort tin anda godh/ tine helses glädi låt mich få/ sterck mich j andans friya modh
Tin wägh iach gerna lära wil/ them som oretwise äre/ at the skola falla tich til/ och giffua tich prijs och äro/ O herre mijne helses gud/ frelsa mich frå synder mina/ mijn tunga scal epter titt budh/ forkunna rettwiso tina.
Om tu hade hafft offer kärt/ iach hade iw thet giffuit tich/ men thet offer som tu haffuer lärt/ thet hierta som bedröffuar sich/ gör wel widh Sion herre min/ så warder vpbygt med tijn ord/ Jerusalem then staden tin/ ther reen offer warda tich giord
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.51.16-Ps.51.17 — Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation; and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. Ps.51.17 — Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
- ↩Ps.51.18-Ps.51.19 — For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; a burnt offering You do not desire. Ps.51.19 — The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and crushed heart, O God, You will not despise.
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