Miserere Mei, Deus ~ Have Mercy Upon Me O God

Latin music has such a profound effect on me.  It has the ability to force me to stop whatever I'm doing;  I clasp my hands fervently in prayer.  I feel like I'm in a trance and I cannot move.  Oftentimes, during Mass, when the Ave Maria is sung. I can feel my eyes become wet with tears.  This is Psalm 51 set to music which has the same effect on me.  

PSALM 51

HAVE MERCY UPON me, O God, according to thy loving kindness:  according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:  and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:  wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:  and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

For thou desirest not sacrafice; else would I give it:  thou delightest not in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:  a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:  build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering:  then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.