1 O LORD , do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath. |
2 For your arrows have pierced me,
and your hand has come down upon me. |
3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;
my bones have no soundness because of my sin. |
4 My guilt has overwhelmed me
like a burden too heavy to bear. |
5 My wounds fester and are loathsome
because of my sinful folly. |
6 I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning. |
7 My back is filled with searing pain;
there is no health in my body. |
8 I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart. |
9 All my longings lie open before you, O Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you. |
10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
even the light has gone from my eyes. |
11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;
my neighbors stay far away. |
12 Those who seek my life set their traps,
those who would harm me talk of my ruin;
all day long they plot deception. |
13 I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear,
like a mute, who cannot open his mouth; |
14 I have become like a man who does not hear,
whose mouth can offer no reply. |
15 I wait for you, O LORD ;
you will answer, O Lord my God. |
16 For I said, "Do not let them gloat
or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips." |
17 For I am about to fall,
and my pain is ever with me. |
18 I confess my iniquity;
I am troubled by my sin. |
19 Many are those who are my vigorous enemies;
those who hate me without reason are numerous. |
20 Those who repay my good with evil
slander me when I pursue what is good. |
21 O LORD , do not forsake me;
be not far from me, O my God. |
22 Come quickly to help me,
O Lord my Savior. |
