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1 LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
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O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger, or discipline me in your wrath.
2 Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.
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For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
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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There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
4 My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
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For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.
5 My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
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My wounds grow foul and fester 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 utterly bowed down and prostrate; all day long I go around mourning.
7 My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
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For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
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I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
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O Lord, 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 throbs, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes—it also has gone from 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 stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far 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.
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Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin, and meditate treachery all day long.
13 I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;
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But I am like the deaf, I do not hear; like the mute, who cannot speak.
14 I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
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Truly, I am like one who does not hear, and in whose mouth is no retort.
15 LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.
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But it is for you, O Lord, that I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
16 For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”
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For I pray, "Only do not let them rejoice over me, those who 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 ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
18 I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
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I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
19 Many have become my enemies without cause ; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
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Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
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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Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.
21 LORD, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.
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Do not forsake me, O Lord; O my God, do not be far from me;
22 Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.
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make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
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