May I experience your compassion, ¹  so I might live! For I find delight in your law.

Your compassion is great, O Lord. Revive me, as you typically do! ¹ 

Remember ¹  your compassionate and faithful deeds, O Lord, for you have always acted in this manner. ² 

O Lord, you do not withhold ¹  your compassion from me. May your loyal love and faithfulness continually protect me! ² 

Answer me, O Lord, for your loyal love is good! ¹  Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!

Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! ¹  Quickly send your compassion our way, ²  for we are in serious trouble! ³ 

For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David’s affair with Bathsheba. ²  Have mercy on me, O God, because of ³  your loyal love! Because of ⁴  your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts! ⁵ 

Listen attentively, ¹  my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins ²  and the city called by your name. ³  For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, ⁴  but because your compassion is abundant.