| 1 | O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger, or 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; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me. |
| 5 | My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness; |
| 6 | I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all day long I go around mourning. |
| 7 | For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. |
| 8 | I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart. |
| 9 | O Lord, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you. |
| 10 | My heart throbs, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes — it also has gone from me. |
| 11 | My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far off. |
| 12 | Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin, and meditate treachery all day long. |
| 13 | But I am like the deaf, I do not hear; like the mute, who cannot speak. |
| 14 | Truly, I am like one who does not hear, and in whose mouth is no retort. |
| 15 | But it is for you, O LORD, that I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer. |
| 16 | For I pray, “Only do not let them rejoice over me, those who boast against me when my foot slips.” |
| 17 | For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me. |
| 18 | I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin. |
| 19 | Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully. |
| 20 | Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good. |
| 21 | Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, do not be far from me; |
| 22 | make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation. |