[1] LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
[2] For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
[3] There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
[4] For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
[5] My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
[6] I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
[7] For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
[8] I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
[9] Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
[10] My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
[11] My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
[12] They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
[13] But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
[14] Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
[15] For I hope in you, LORD. You will answer, Lord my God.
[16] For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
[17] For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
[18] For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
[19] But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
[20] They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
[21] Don’t forsake me, LORD. My God, don’t be far from me.
[22] Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.