Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God
Worship
In the Beginning Was the Word
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir, Cycle A
Suggestions:
Use as a prayer.
Read from a sitting position from usual place in the pews.
14 readers - a variety of folk
Key:
1-14 = readers
1: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love;
2: according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
3: Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
4: For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
5: Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.
6: Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.
7: You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
8: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
9: Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.
10: Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
All: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
11: Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.
All: Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.
12: Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
13: Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.
All: O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
14: For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased. The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Use as a prayer.
Read from a sitting position from usual place in the pews.
14 readers - a variety of folk
Key:
1-14 = readers
1: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love;
2: according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
3: Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
4: For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
5: Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.
6: Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.
7: You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
8: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
9: Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.
10: Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
All: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
11: Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me.
All: Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.
12: Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
13: Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.
All: O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
14: For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased. The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
