In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper;
David asks God in his favor to do good to Zion and build Jerusalem's walls.
This verse widens the prayer from personal guilt to communal restoration.
1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. 2Wash me clean of my iniquity 3For I know my transgressions, 4Against You, You only, have I sinned 5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; 6Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; 7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; 8Let me hear joy and gladness; 9Hide Your face from my sins 10Create in me a clean heart, O God, 11Cast me not away from Your presence; 12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, 13Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, 14Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, 15O Lord, open my lips, 16For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; 17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; 18In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; 19Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices,