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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 by David, for a memorial.>> Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, Neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2 Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.
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For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard 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, Neither is there any 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. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
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My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, 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 pained and bowed down greatly. I go 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 loins are filled with burning. 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 faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
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Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning 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 is gone from me.
11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.
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My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. 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.
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They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all day long.
13 I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;
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But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.
14 I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
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Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, In whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.
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For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.
16 For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”
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For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, Or exalt themselves over 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. My pain is continually before me.
18 I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
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For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for 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 vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
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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They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, Because I follow what is good.
21 LORD, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.
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Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.
22 Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.
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Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.