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1 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!
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LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
2 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
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Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
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Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
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My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
5 My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
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My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
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I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
7 For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
8 I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
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I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
9 O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
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All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.
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My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
11 My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
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My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.
12 Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
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Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.
13 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
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I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;
14 I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
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I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
15 But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
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LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.
16 For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!"
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For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”
17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.
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For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
18 I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
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I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
19 But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
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Many have become my enemies without cause ; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
20 Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.
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Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.
21 Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me!
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LORD, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
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Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.
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