Jeremiah 31: 31-34

• 31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband,[a] says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

Psalm 51

• Prayer for Cleansing and Pardon
  To the leader. A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
  
  1 Have mercy on me, O God,
      according to your steadfast love;
  according to your abundant mercy
      blot out my transgressions.
  
  2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
      and cleanse me from my sin.
  
  3 For I know my transgressions,
      and my sin is ever before me.
  
  4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned,
      and done what is evil in your sight,
  so that you are justified in your sentence
      and blameless when you pass judgment.
  
  5 Indeed, I was born guilty,
      a sinner when my mother conceived me.
  
  6 You desire truth in the inward being;[a]
      therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
  
  7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
      wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
  
  8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
      let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.
  
  9 Hide your face from my sins,
      and blot out all my iniquities.
  
  10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
      and put a new and right[b] spirit within me.
  
  11 Do not cast me away from your presence,
      and do not take your holy spirit from me.
  
  12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
      and sustain in me a willing[c] spirit.