Psalm 51:12 {50:14}
Good News Translation
Give me again the joy that comes from your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.

New Revised Standard Version
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.

Contemporary English Version
Make me as happy as you did when you saved me; make me want to obey!

New American Bible
Restore to me the gladness of your salvation; uphold me with a willing spirit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

Restore

Psalm 85:6-8 Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall rejoice in thee. . . .

Job 29:2,3 Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me? . . .

Isaiah 57:17,18 For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering in his own heart. . . .

Jeremiah 31:9-14 They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. . . .

joy

Psalm 13:5 Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved:

Psalm 21:1 Unto the end. A psalm for David. [2] In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly.

Psalm 35:9 But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and shall be delighted in his salvation.

Isaiah 49:13 Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy on his poor ones.

Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.

Luke 1:47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

Romans 5:2-11 By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. . . .

uphold

Psalm 17:5 Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.

Psalm 19:13 And from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin.

Psalm 119:116,117,133 Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me not be confounded in my expectation. . . .

Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.

Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk, and to direct his steps.

Romans 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.

1 Peter 1:5 Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

Jude 1:24 Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

free

Romans 8:15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear: but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father).

2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Galatians 4:6,7 And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father. . . .

Context
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
11Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.13I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be converted to thee.…
Cross References
Psalm 9:14
Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Psalm 13:5
Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved:

Psalm 54:4
For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.

Psalm 110:3
With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

Psalm 51:11
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