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1 LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
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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 Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.
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for your arrows penetrate me deeply, and your hand is pressing me down.
3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness 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 My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
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for my iniquities loom high over my head as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.
5 My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
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I have stinking, festering wounds because of my foolishness.
6 I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
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I am bent down, prostrate completely; I go about mourning all day long.
7 My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
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For my insides burn with fever, and my whole body is sick.
8 I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
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I am numb, completely crushed; my anguished heart makes me groan aloud.
9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
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Adonai, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
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My heart is throbbing, my strength is gone, and the light in my eyes has left me.
11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.
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My friends and companions shun my disease; even the closest keep their distance.
12 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.
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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 I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;
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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 I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
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Yes, I've become like a man who doesn't hear and in whose mouth are no defenses.
15 LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, 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, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”
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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 about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
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For I am about to fall, and my pain is always with me.
18 I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
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I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin.
19 Many have become my enemies without cause ; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
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But my enemies are alive and well, those who wrongfully hate me increase their numbers;
20 Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.
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and, since they repay good with evil, they oppose me because I pursue good.
21 LORD, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.
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Don't abandon me, ADONAI! My God, don't be far from me!
22 Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.
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Come quickly to help me, Adonai, my salvation!
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