Psalms

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath; neither chasten me in Your fury.

For Your arrows stick fast in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me.

[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of Your anger; nor rest in my bones because of my sin.

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

My wounds have putrefied [and] rotted, 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; and there [is] no soundness in my flesh.

My Lord, all my desire [is] before You; and my sighing is not hidden 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 apart from my plague; and my neighbors stand far off.

And those who seek my life lay snares [for me]; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.

But like a deaf one, I do not hear; and I [am] like a dumb one who opens not his mouth.

And I am 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 rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

For I [am] ready to fall, and my pain [is] always before me.

For I will declare my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin.

And my enemies [are] lively; they are strong; and my haters increase [by] deception.

And those who give evil for good oppose me, because I follow good.

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

Make haste to help me, O my LORD, my salvation.