[1] O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath! [2] 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!
