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Sprinkle me with hyssop[a] so that I may be cleansed;
    wash me until I am whiter than snow.
10 Let me experience joy and gladness;
    let the bones you have crushed exult.
11 Hide your face from my sins,
    and wipe out all my offenses.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:9 Hyssop: a plant with many branchlets that is a convenient sprinkler, prescribed for sprinkling sacrificial blood or water for cleansing (see Ex 12:22; Lev 14:4; Num 19:18). Whiter than snow: purity beyond compare (see Isa 1:18; Dan 7:9; Rev 7:14; 19:14).