1. "A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance." O LORD, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither punish me in your hot displeasure.
2. For your arrows stick firmly in me, and your hand presses hard upon me.
3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest 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 stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6. I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8. I am feeble and greatly broken: I have groaned because of the agitation of my heart.
9. Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
10. My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
11. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my wound; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12. They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
13. But I, as a deaf man, did not hear; and I was as a dumb man that does not open his mouth.
14. Thus I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15. For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.
16. For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
17. For I am ready to limp, and my sorrow 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 they are strong: and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20. They also that return evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.
21. Do not forsake me, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22. Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
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