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O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!What does the psalmist ask of the Lord?
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For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.4
For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.5
My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,6
I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.7
For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.8
I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.9
O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.10
My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.11
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.12
Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.13
But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth.14
I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.15
But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.16
For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!"17
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.18
I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.19
But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.20
Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.21
Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me!22
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!