 1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Lord, do not rebuke me in your wrath. Neither chasten me in your fury. 2 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses heavily on me. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger. Nor rest 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 have putrefied and rotted, because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled. I am bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. 7 For my body+ is filled with a burning and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am feeble and painfully broken; I have roared because of the groanings of my heart. 9 My Lord, all my desire is before you. And my sighing is not hidden from you. 10 My heart pants. My strength fails me. The light of my eyes is also gone from me. 11 My lovers and friends stay away+ from my pain. Even my relatives+ stand far away. 12 Those who seek my life lay snares for me. Those who seek to hurt me speak sly things and utter deceits all day long. 13 But like a deaf one, I do not hear. I am like a silent+ one who does not open not his mouth. 14 I am as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in you, O Lord, do I hope. You will hear, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, Hear me, lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me. 17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is always before me. 18 For I will declare my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin. 19 My enemies are lively. They are strong. And my haters increase by deception. 20 Those who give evil for good oppose me, because I follow good. 21 Do not forsake me, Lord my God. Do not be far from me. 22 Hurry+ to help me, my Lord, my salvation.
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