- 1The Lord, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
- 2For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
- 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- 4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
- 5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
- 6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
- 7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
- 8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
- 9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
- 10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
- 11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
- 12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
- 13But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
- 14Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- 15For in you, the Lord, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.
- 16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
- 17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
- 18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
- 19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
- 20They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
- 21Don’t forsake me, the Lord. My God, don’t be far from me.
- 22Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.