[1] O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
[2] For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.
[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 are gone over my head: as an 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 sore 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 they that 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] Thus 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, lest 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 my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
[19] But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
[20] They also that render evil for good are my 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.
