A fool’s argument

Psalm 53:1New International Reader’s Version For the director of music. According to mahalath. A maskil of David. 53 Foolish people say in their hearts,    “There is no God.”They do all kinds of horrible and evil things.    No one does anything good.

Murder by slander

Psalm 52:2Amplified Bible 2 Your tongue devises destruction,Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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Isaiah 43:25Amplified Bible 25 “I, only I, am He who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake,And I will not remember your sins.

Fresh

Psalm 51:12Amplified Bible 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvationAnd sustain me with a willing spirit.

Praise from pure hearts

Psalm 51:17Amplified Bible 17 My [only] sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a broken spirit;A broken and contrite heart [broken with sorrow for sin, thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.

Halfhearted or wholehearted?

1 John 1:9Amplified Bible 9 If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just [true to His own nature and promises], and will forgive our sins and cleanse us continually from all unrighteousness [our wrongdoing, everything not in conformity with His will and purpose].

The old tractor

Psalm 51:12New International Version 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Profitable praying

Psalm 51:3Amplified Bible 3 For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them;My sin is always before me.

The voice of God at sunset

Psalm 50:1New International Version Psalm 50 A psalm of Asaph. 1 The Mighty One, God, the Lord,    speaks and summons the earth    from the rising of the sun to where it sets.

Weak beneath the surface

Psalm 62:9 Amplified Bible 9 Men of low degree are only a breath (emptiness), and men of [high] rank are a lie (delusion).In the balances they go up [because they have no measurable weight or value];They are together lighter than a breath.