1 Y ahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

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

2 F or your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore.

3 T here is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

There 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 have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

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

5 M y wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

7 F or my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

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

9 L ord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.

10 M y heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

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

11 M y lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

My friends and my companions stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

12 T hey also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

¶ 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, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

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

14 Y es, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

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

15 F or in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

For thee, O LORD, do I wait; thou wilt respond, O Lord my God.

16 F or I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

For 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 fall. My pain is continually before me.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

18 F or I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

Therefore I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

19 B ut my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

For my enemies are alive, and they are strong, and those that hate me wrongfully are multiplied;

20 T hey who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

rendering evil for good they are against me because I follow that which is good.

21 D on’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

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

22 H urry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.