A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

• ¹Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,
• neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

• ²For your arrows have pierced me,
• your hand presses hard on me.

• ³There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,
• neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

• ⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head.
• As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

• ⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt,
• because of my foolishness.

• ⁶I am pained and bowed down greatly.
• I go mourning all day long.

• ⁷For my waist is filled with burning.
• There is no soundness in my flesh.

• ⁸I am faint and severely bruised.
• I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

• ⁹Lord, all my desire is before you.
• My groaning is not hidden from you.

• ¹⁰My heart throbs.
• My strength fails me.
• As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

• ¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.
• My kinsmen stand far away.

• ¹²They also who seek after my life lay snares.
• Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things,
• and meditate deceits all day long.

• ¹³But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear.
• I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

• ¹⁴Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear,
• in whose mouth are no reproofs.

• ¹⁵For in you, Yahweh, do I hope.
• You will answer, Lord my God.

• ¹⁶For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me,
• or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

• ¹⁷For I am ready to fall.
• My pain is continually before me.

• ¹⁸For I will declare my iniquity.
• I will be sorry for my sin.

• ¹⁹But my enemies are vigorous and many.
• Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

• ²⁰They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me,
• because I follow what is good.

• ²¹Don’t forsake me, Yahweh.
• My God, don’t be far from me.

• ²²Hurry to help me,
• Lord, my salvation.