KJV King James Version
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
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Psalm 51:7
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
WEB World English Bible
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
ASV American Standard Version
Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter.
Surrounding context — Psalm 51
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden [part] thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
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1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.Isaiah 1:18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.Hebrews 9:13-14For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:Numbers 19:18-20And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip [it] in the water, and sprinkle [it] upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:Hebrews 9:19For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,Revelation 1:5And from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,Exodus 12:22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.Ephesians 5:26-27That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,Revelation 7:13-14And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?Leviticus 14:49-52And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:Leviticus 14:4-7Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
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