Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
1 <<A Psalm by David, for a memorial.>> LORD, don't rebuke me in your wrath, Neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
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Take a deep breath, God; calm down - don't be so hasty with your punishing rod.
2 For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.
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Your sharp-pointed arrows of rebuke draw blood; my backside smarts from your caning.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
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I've lost twenty pounds in two months because of your accusation. My bones are brittle as dry sticks because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
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I'm swamped by my bad behavior, collapsed under gunnysacks of guilt.
5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
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The cuts in my flesh stink and grow maggots because I've lived so badly.
6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
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And now I'm flat on my face feeling sorry for myself morning to night.
7 For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
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All my insides are on fire, my body is a wreck.
8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
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I'm on my last legs; I've had it - my life is a vomit of groans.
9 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
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Lord, my longings are sitting in plain sight, my groans an old story to you.
10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
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My heart's about to break; I'm a burned-out case. Cataracts blind me to God and good;
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand afar off.
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old friends avoid me like the plague. My cousins never visit, my neighbors stab me in the back.
12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all day long.
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My competitors blacken my name, devoutly they pray for my ruin.
13 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.
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But I'm deaf and mute to it all, ears shut, mouth shut.
14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, In whose mouth are no reproofs.
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I don't hear a word they say, don't speak a word in response.
15 For in you, LORD, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.
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What I do, God, is wait for you, wait for my Lord, my God - you will answer!
16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, Or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
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I wait and pray so they won't laugh me off, won't smugly strut off when I stumble.
17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
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I'm on the edge of losing it - the pain in my gut keeps burning.
18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
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I'm ready to tell my story of failure, I'm no longer smug in my sin.
19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
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My enemies are alive and in action, a lynch mob after my neck.
20 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, Because I follow what is good.
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I give out good and get back evil from God-haters who can't stand a God-lover.
21 Don't forsake me, LORD. My God, don't be far from me.
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Don't dump me, God; my God, don't stand me up.
22 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
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Hurry and help me; I want some wide-open space in my life!
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