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1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
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A psalm of David, serving as a reminder: ADONAI, don't rebuke me when you are angry or discipline me when you are enraged,
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
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for your arrows penetrate me deeply, and your hand is pressing me down.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
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Your indignation left no part of me intact; my sin made my whole body sick;
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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for my iniquities loom high over my head as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
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I have stinking, festering wounds because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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I am bent down, prostrate completely; I go about mourning all day long.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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For my insides burn with fever, and my whole body is sick.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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I am numb, completely crushed; my anguished heart makes me groan aloud.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
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Adonai, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
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My heart is throbbing, my strength is gone, and the light in my eyes has left me.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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My friends and companions shun my disease; even the closest keep their distance.
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.
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Those seeking my life lay snares for me, those seeking to harm me speak of disaster and think up deceptions all day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
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But I'm like a deaf man - I don't hear it; and, like a mute, I don't say a word.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
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Yes, I've become like a man who doesn't hear and in whose mouth are no defenses.
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
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For it is in you, ADONAI, that I hope. You will answer, Adonai my God.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
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I said, "Don't let them gloat over me or boast against me when my foot slips."
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
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For I am about to fall, and my pain is always with me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
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I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin.
19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
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But my enemies are alive and well, those who wrongfully hate me increase their numbers;
20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
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and, since they repay good with evil, they oppose me because I pursue good.
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
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Don't abandon me, ADONAI! My God, don't be far from me!
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
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Come quickly to help me, Adonai, my salvation!
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Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.