[this is the translation of Psalm 51 that appears in the margins of The Meditation]
1. Have mercie upon me (o God) after thy great merci.2. Wash me yet more from my wickednes, and clense me from my sinne.
3. For I knowledge my wickednes, and my sinne is ever before me.
4. Againste thee
onelye have I sinned, & don evill in thy sight
That thou mightest be found just in thy sayinges, and maiest over come when
thou art judged.
5. For loe, I was shapen in wickednes, and in sinne my mother conceived me.
6. But lo, thou
haste loved trueth, the hidden and secrete thinges of thy wisedom
thou haste opened unto me.
7. Sprinkle me,
Lorde, with hisope and i shalbe cleane. washe me and I shalbe
whiter then snow.
8. Thou shalt make
me heare joye and gladnesse, al the bones which thou hast
broken shal rejoyse.
9. Turne away thy face from my sinnes, and do away all my misdedes.
10. Create a cleane
hart within me, O God. and renew a stedfast spirit within my
bowels.
11. Cast me not away from thy face, and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12. Restore to
me the comforte of thy saving help, & stablishe me with thy free
spirit.
13. I shal teach thy waies unto the wicked, and sinners shall be tourned unto thee.
14. Deliver me
from bloud, o God, God of my helth & my tong shall joyfullye talke
of thy justice.
15. Lord, open thou my lippes, and my mouth shal shewe thy praise.
16. If thou haddest
desired sacrifice, I wold have geven
thou delytest not in burnt offringes.
17. The sacrifice
to God is a trobled spirit: a broken and an humbled hart, o god,
thou wilt not despise.
18. Shew favour,
o lord in thy good will unto Sion, that the walls of Hierusalem may
be bylded.
19. Then shall
thou accept the sacrifice of righteousnesse, burnt offringes and
oblations. Then shall they offre yonge bullockes upon thine altare.