| 2 O Lord, rebuke me not in your rage, punish me not in your fury. | |
| 3 Your arrows have struck me; your hand has come down heavily upon me. | |
| 4 Your anger has spared no part of my body, my sin gives no peace to my bones. | |
| 5 For my transgressions overwhelm me; they weigh me down like an unbearable load. | |
| 6 My wounds stink and fester within me, the outcome of my sinful folly. | |
| 7 Stooped and bowed down, I go about mourning all day. | |
| 8 My loins burn, my flesh is diseased, | |
| 9 my body, worn out and utterly crushed; I groan in pain and anguish of heart. | |
| 10 All my longing, O Lord, is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you. | |
| 11 My heart pounds as my strength ebbs; even the light has deserted my eyes. | |
| 12 My friends avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far off. | |
| 13 Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who wish to hurt me speak of my ruin and plot against me all day long. | |
| 14 But like a deaf-mute, I neither hear nor open my mouth. | |
| 15 I am like one whose ears hear not and whose mouth has no answer. | |
| 16 For I put my trust in you, O Lord; you will answer for me, Lord God. | |
| 17 I pray, “Don’t let them gloat over me, nor take advantage of my helplessness when my foot slips.” | |
| 18 For I am about to fall, my pain is ever with me. | |
| 19 I confess my transgression, I repent of my sin. | |
| 20 Many are my foes; many are those who hate me for no reason, | |
| 21 those who pay me evil for good and harass me because I seek good. | |
| 22 Forsake me not, O Lord, stay not far from me, O my God. | |
| 23 Come quickly to help me, O Lord, my savior! | |
