1 O LORD, do not reprove me in your fury, nor chasten me in your hot anger.
2 For your arrows have come down into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.
3 There is nothing sound in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy load, they weigh too much for me.
5 My wounds reek and rot because of my folly.
6 I am bent over, bowed down to the utmost; all day I walk about in dark mourning.
7 For my loins are full of burning, and nothing in my flesh is sound.
8 I am numb and crushed exceedingly; I roar because of the groaning of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is in front of you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.
10 My heart pounds; my strength has left me; and the light of my eyes, even that is no longer with me.
11 My loved ones and my friends stand back from my affliction, and my near ones stand at a distance.
12 Those who seek my soul set traps; those who seek my harm speak of destruction and murmur deceits all day.
13 But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
14 I am like a man who does not hear and in whose mouth there are no arguments.
15 For on you, O LORD, I have waited; you will answer, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, "Do not let them rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they make themselves great against me."
17 For I am ready to stumble, and my pain is continually in front of me.
18 For I declare my iniquity; I am anxious because of my sin.
19 But my enemies are alive and powerful, and those who hate me falsely are many.
20 And those who pay back evil in place of good oppose me, because I pursue what is good.
21 Do not abandon me, O LORD; my God, do not stay far from me.
22 Hurry to help me, O Lord, my salvation.