[1] O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
[2] For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
[3] There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
[4] For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
[5] My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
[6] I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
[7] For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
[8] I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
[9] O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
[10] My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
[11] My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
[12] Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
[13] But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
[14] I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
[15] I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
[16] For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
[17] For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
[18] Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
[19] Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
[20] Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
[21] Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
[22] Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.