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1 LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7 My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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.
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.
13 I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
14 I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
17 For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18 I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19 Many have become my enemies without cause ; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20 Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.
20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
21 LORD, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22 Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
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