Psalm 51:7 {50:9}
Good News Translation
Remove my sin, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

New Revised Standard Version
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Contemporary English Version
Wash me with hyssop until I am clean and whiter than snow.

New American Bible
Cleanse me with hyssop, that I may be pure; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

Purge

Leviticus 14:4-7,49-52 Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. . . .

Numbers 19:18-20 And a man that is clean shall dip hyssop in them, and shall sprinkle therewith all the tent, and all the furniture, and the men that are defiled with touching any such thing: . . .

Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

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Hebrews 9:13,14 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: . . .

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings of the earth, who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood

whiter

Isaiah 1:18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Ephesians 5:26,27 That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: . . .

Revelation 7:13,14 And one of the ancients answered and said to me: These that are clothed in white robes, who are they? And whence came they? . . .

Context
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
6For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me. 7Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.8To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.…
Cross References
John 13:8
Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet, Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.

Hebrews 9:19
For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

Exodus 12:22
And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and sprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.

Leviticus 14:4
Shall command him that is to be purified, to offer for himself two living sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

Leviticus 14:6
But the other that is alive, he shall dip, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet and the hyssop, in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated:

Leviticus 14:51
He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood of the sparrow that is immolated, and in the living water: and he shall sprinkle the house seven times.

Numbers 19:18
And a man that is clean shall dip hyssop in them, and shall sprinkle therewith all the tent, and all the furniture, and the men that are defiled with touching any such thing:

Psalm 51:2
Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Isaiah 1:18
And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Lamentations 4:7
Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

Ezekiel 36:25
And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.

Zechariah 13:1
In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and of the unclean woman.

Psalm 51:6
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