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¹LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, And do not punish me in Your burning anger.

²For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me.

³There is no healthy part in my flesh because of Your indignation; There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

⁴For my guilty deeds have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

⁵My wounds grow foul and fester Because of my foolishness.

⁶I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go in mourning all day long.

⁷For my sides are filled with burning, And there is no healthy part in my flesh.

⁸I feel faint and badly crushed; I groan because of the agitation of my heart.

⁹Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.

¹⁰My heart throbs, my strength fails me; And the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me.

¹¹My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand far away.

¹²Those who seek my life lay snares for me; And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction, And they plot deception all day long.

¹³But I, like a person who is deaf, do not hear; And I am like a person who cannot speak, who does not open his mouth.

¹⁴Yes, I am like a person who does not hear, And in whose mouth are no arguments.

¹⁵For I wait for You, LORD; You will answer, Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, “May they not rejoice over me, Who, when my foot slips, would exalt themselves over me.”

¹⁷For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

¹⁸For I admit my guilt; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

¹⁹But my enemies are vigorous and strong, And those who wrongfully hate me are many.

²⁰And those who repay evil for good, They become my enemies, because I follow what is good.

²¹Do not abandon me, LORD; My God, do not be far from me!

²²Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation!

¹I said, “I will keep watch over my ways So that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep watch over my mouth as with a muzzle While the wicked are in my presence.”

²I was mute and silent, I refused to say even something good, And my pain was stirred up.

³My heart was hot within me, While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:

⁴“LORD, let me know my end, And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am.

⁵Behold, You have made my days like hand widths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Certainly all mankind standing is a mere breath. Selah

⁶Certainly every person walks around as a fleeting shadow; They certainly make an uproar for nothing; He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

⁷“And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

⁸Save me from all my wrongdoings; Do not make me an object of reproach for the foolish.

⁹I have become mute, I do not open my mouth, Because it is You who have done it.

¹⁰Remove Your plague from me; Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing.

¹¹With rebukes You punish a person for wrongdoing; You consume like a moth what is precious to him; Certainly all mankind is mere breath! Selah

¹²“Hear my prayer, LORD, and listen to my cry for help; Do not be silent to my tears; For I am a stranger with You, One who lives abroad, like all my fathers.

¹³Turn Your eyes away from me, that I may become cheerful again Before I depart and am no more.”

¹I waited patiently for the LORD; And He reached down to me and heard my cry.

²He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud; And He set my feet on a rock, making my footsteps firm.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear And will trust in the LORD.

⁴How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who become involved in falsehood.

⁵Many, LORD my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is no one to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count.

⁶You have not desired sacrifice and meal offering; You have opened my ears; You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

⁷Then I said, “Behold, I have come; It is written of me in the scroll of the book.

⁸I delight to do Your will, my God; Your Law is within my heart.”

⁹I have proclaimed good news of righteousness in the great congregation; Behold, I will not restrain my lips, LORD, You know.

¹⁰I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great congregation.

¹¹You, LORD, will not withhold Your compassion from me; Your mercy and Your truth will continually watch over me.

¹²For evils beyond number have surrounded me; My guilty deeds have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see; They are more numerous than the hairs of my head, And my heart has failed me.

¹³Be pleased, LORD, to rescue me; Hurry, LORD, to help me.

¹⁴May those be ashamed and humiliated together Who seek my life to destroy it; May those be turned back and dishonored Who delight in my hurt.

¹⁵May those be appalled because of their shame Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

¹⁶May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; May those who love Your salvation continually say, “The LORD be exalted!”

¹⁷But I am afflicted and needy; May the Lord be mindful of me. You are my help and my savior; Do not delay, my God.

¹Blessed is one who considers the helpless; The LORD will save him on a day of trouble.

²The LORD will protect him and keep him alive, And he will be called blessed upon the earth; And do not turn him over to the desire of his enemies.

³The LORD will sustain him upon his sickbed; In his illness, You restore him to health.

⁴As for me, I said, “LORD, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

⁵My enemies speak evil against me, “When will he die, and his name perish?”

⁶And when he comes to see me, he speaks empty words; His heart gathers wickedness to itself; When he goes outside, he tells it.

⁷All who hate me whisper together against me; They plot my harm against me, saying,

⁸“A wicked thing is poured out upon him, So that when he lies down, he will not get up again.”

⁹Even my close friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰But You, LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up, That I may repay them.

¹¹By this I know that You are pleased with me, Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

¹²As for me, You uphold me in my integrity, And You place me in Your presence forever.

¹³Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

¹As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, God.

²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

³My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

⁴I remember these things and pour out my soul within me. For I used to go over with the multitude and walk them to the house of God, With a voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude celebrating a festival.

⁵Why are you in despair, my soul? And why are you restless within me? Wait for God, for I will again praise Him For the help of His presence, my God.

⁶My soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

⁷Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.

⁸The LORD will send His goodness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

¹⁰As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

¹¹Why are you in despair, my soul? And why are you restless within me? Wait for God, for I will again praise Him For the help of His presence, my God.