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Wednesday Wallpaper: Wash Me Thoroughly From My Iniquities

by Jacob Abshire on April 2, 2014

After his affair with Bathsheba and murdering Uriah, David recognized how horrendous his sin was against God. He blamed no one but himself and begged for divine forgiveness. He desired a clean heart (adapted from The MacArthur Study Bible). This wallpaper features a photo from Australian photographer Bernhard Geier.

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 only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the 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 broken rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

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