1 O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath,nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.
2 For Your arrows pierce me,and Your hand presses down on me.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation,nor is there health in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have passed over my head;as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds grow foul and festerbecause of my foolishness.
6 I am bent, I am bowed down greatly;I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my sides are filled with burning,and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am numb and completely crushed;I have roared because of the groaning of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before You,and my sighing is not hidden from You.
10 My heart throbs, my strength fails me;as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 My friends and my companions stand back because of my affliction,and those close to me stand at a distance.
12 The people who seek my life strike at me;those who seek my harm speak destruction,and plan treacheries all the day long.
13 But I, like a deaf man, did not hear;and like a dumb man, did not open my mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man who does not hear,and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 For in You, O Lord, do I hope;You will answer, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, “Lest otherwise they should rejoice over me.When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.”
17 For I am ready to stumble,and my pain is continually before me.
18 For I will declare my iniquity;I am anxious because of my sin.
19 But my enemies are lively, and they are strong;and those who wrongfully hate me are many.
20 Those also who repay evil for good are my adversaries,because I pursue good.
21 Do not abandon me, O Lord;O my God, do not be far from me.
22 Make haste to help me,O Lord, my salvation.