A prayer for forgiveness of sins

Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at sacred-texts.com

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HYMN CXV

A prayer for forgiveness of sins

1Whatever wrong we wittingly or in our ignorance have done,
  Do ye deliver us therefrom, O all ye Gods, of one accord.
2If I, a sinner, when awake or sleeping have committed sin,
  Free me therefrom as from a stake, from present and from
   future guilt.
3As one unfastened from a stake, or cleansed by bathing after
   toil,
  As butter which the sieve hath cleansed, so all shall purge me
   from the sin.