“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 51 contains 19 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.