¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither discipline me in your hot displeasure. ² For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sorely. 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 mine iniquities are gone over mine 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 sorely broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness 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 sore and my kinsmen stand afar off. ¹² They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and those seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. ¹³ But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth. ¹⁴ So I was as a man that hears not, 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, in case otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify [themselves] against me. ¹⁷ For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. ¹⁸ For I will declare mine iniquity I will be sorry for my sin. ¹⁹ But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and those hate me wrongfully are multiplied. ²⁰ They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries because I follow the thing that good [is]. ²¹ Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. ²² Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.