Psalms

O LORD, rebuke me not in your wrath; neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

For your arrows have pierced me, and your hand presses me down.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

For my iniquities have gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

For my loins are filled with a burning disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

I am feeble and sore broken; I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.

My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

They also who seek after my life lay snares for me; and they who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man who opens not his mouth.

Thus I was as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

For in you, O LORD, do I hope; you will hear, O Lord my God.

For I said, "Hear me, lest they should rejoice over me"; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

But my enemies are lively, and they are strong; and they who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also who render evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow the thing that is good.

Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.

Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.