Psalm 51:21
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15 Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.
16 Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
17 O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.
18 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
19 The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
20 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
21 Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.