⁰A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

¹Yahweh, do not reprove me in your wrath, and do not discipline me in your anger.

²For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no wholeness in my bones because of my sin.

⁴For my guilt has passed over my head; like a heavy burden it is too heavy for me.

⁵My bruises stink and fester because of my folly.

⁶I am bent down, I am bowed low exceedingly; all day long I walk about darkened with mourning.

⁷For my loins are filled with scorching, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸I have grown numb and am crushed down exceedingly; I roar from the groaning of my heart.

⁹O Lord, all my delight is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart throbs, my strength has left me, and the light of my eyes, even they are not with me.

¹¹My friends and my companions stand back from my plague, and my near ones stand at a distance.

¹²Those who seek my being lay snares, and those who seek my harm speak destruction; all day they murmur deceit.

¹³But I am like the deaf; I do not hear, and like a mute who does not open his mouth.

¹⁴I have become like a man who does not hear, with no rebukes in his mouth.

¹⁵For it is for you, Yahweh, that I have waited; you will answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, "Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they made themselves great over me."

¹⁷For I am ready for stumbling, and my pain is before me continually.

¹⁸For I will tell my guilt; I am anxious over my sin.

¹⁹And my enemies are alive; they are numerous, and those who hate me falsely have multiplied.

²⁰And those who repay evil in place of good accuse me, for my pursuing good.

²¹Do not forsake me, Yahweh; my God, do not be far from me.

²²Hasten to my help, O Lord, my deliverance.