51:10 Create for me a pure heart, O God! 1
Renew a resolute spirit within me! 2
51:12 Let me again experience the joy of your deliverance!
Sustain me by giving me the desire to obey! 3
1 sn The heart is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s motives and moral character.
2 tn Heb “and a reliable spirit renew in my inner being.”
3 tn Heb “and [with] a willing spirit sustain me.” The psalmist asks that God make him the kind of person who willingly obeys the divine commandments. The imperfect verbal form is used here to express the psalmist’s wish or request.