1 ¶ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

2 F or thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore.

3 T here is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

4 F or my iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

5 M y 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 F or my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am feeble and sore broken; I roar by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

9 L ord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.

10 M y heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

11 M y friends and my companions stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

12 ¶ Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.

13 B ut I, as a deaf man, that heard not, and as a dumb man that did not open his mouth.

14 T hus I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

15 F or thee, O LORD, do I wait; thou wilt respond, O Lord my God.

16 F or I said, Let them not rejoice over me; let them not magnify themselves against me when my foot slips.

17 F or I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

18 T herefore I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

19 F or my enemies are alive, and they are strong, and those that hate me wrongfully are multiplied;

20 r endering evil for good they are against me because I follow that which is good.

21 F orsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.

22 M ake haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.