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