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Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

¹ A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.² For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.³ There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.⁴ For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.⁵ My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.⁶ I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.⁷ For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.⁸ I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.⁹ O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.¹⁰ My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.¹¹ My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

¹² Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.¹³ But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.¹⁴ I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.¹⁵ I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.¹⁶ For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”¹⁷ For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.¹⁸ Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.^{19 (a)}Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.²⁰ Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.²¹ Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.²² Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.