1A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath; neither chasten me in Your fury. 2For Your arrows stick fast in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me. 3[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of Your anger; nor rest in my bones because of my sin. 4For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5My wounds have putrefied [and] rotted, because of my foolishness. 6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7For my loins are filled with a burning; and there [is] no soundness in my flesh. 8I am feeble and painfully broken; I have roared because of the groanings of my heart. 9My Lord, all my desire [is] before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You. 10My heart pants; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me. 11My lovers and my friends stand apart from my plague; and my neighbors stand far off. 12And those who seek my life lay snares [for me]; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long. 13But like a deaf one, I do not hear; and I [am] like a dumb one who opens not his mouth. 14And I am as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs. 15For in You, O LORD, do I hope; You will hear, O LORD my God. 16For I said, [Hear me], lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me. 17For I [am] ready to fall, and my pain [is] always before me. 18For I will declare my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin. 19And my enemies [are] lively; they are strong; and my haters increase [by] deception. 20And those who give evil for good oppose me, because I follow good. 21Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me. 22Make haste to help me, O my LORD, my salvation.