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Thoroughly wash away my guilt;
    and from my sin cleanse me.

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Behold, I was born in guilt,
    in sin my mother conceived me.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 51:7 In sin my mother conceived me: lit., “In iniquity was I conceived,” an instance of hyperbole: at no time was the psalmist ever without sin, cf. Ps 88:15, “I am mortally afflicted since youth,” i.e., I have always been afflicted. The verse does not imply that the sexual act of conception is sinful.