1 O Lord, *Ps. 6:1rebuke me not in your anger,

nor discipline me in your wrath!

2 For your *Job 6:4arrows have sunk into me,

and your hand *See Ps. 32:4has come down on me.

3 There is *Isa. 1:6no soundness in my flesh

because of your indignation;

there is no health in my *See Ps. 31:10bones

because of my sin.

4 For my *Ps. 40:12;Ezra 9:6iniquities have gone over my head;

like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

5 My wounds stink and fester

because of my foolishness,

6 I am *Ps. 35:14;42:5,6,11;43:5utterly bowed down and *Isa. 21:3prostrate;

all the day I *[Job 30:28]go about mourning.

7 For my sides are filled with burning,

and there is *[See ver. 3above]no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am feeble and crushed;

I *See Ps. 22:1groan because of the tumult of my heart.

9 O Lord, all my longing is before you;

my *Ps. 6:6sighing is not hidden from you.

10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me,

and *See Ps. 6:7the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.

11 My *Ps. 88:18;See Job 19:13-20friends and companions *[Luke 10:31,32] stand aloof from my *Ps. 39:10;Isa. 53:4,8plague,

and my nearest kin *[Matt. 27:55;Mark 15:40;Luke 23:49]stand far off.

12 Those who seek my life *[Matt. 22:15]; Mark 12:13;Luke 20:20;See 2 Sam. 17:1-3lay their snares;

those who seek my hurt *[2 Sam. 16:7,8] speak of ruin

and meditate *Ps. 35:20treachery all day long.

13 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,

like *Ps. 39:2,9;Isa. 53:7;1 Pet. 2:23a mute man who does not open his mouth.

14 I have become like a man who does not hear,

and in whose mouth are no *[Job 23:4]rebukes.

15 But for *Ps. 39:7;[2 Sam. 16:12]you, O Lord, do I wait;

it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

16 For I said, "Only *[Ps. 13:4] let them not rejoice over me,

who *See Job 19:5boast against me when my *Ps. 94:18foot slips!"

17 For I am *Ps. 35:15;Jer. 20:10ready to fall,

and my pain is ever before me.

18 I *See Ps. 32:5confess my iniquity;

I am *[2 Cor. 7:9,10]sorry for my sin.

19 But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,

and many are those who hate me *Ps. 35:19wrongfully.

20 Those who *See Ps. 35:12render me evil for good

*Ps. 109:4accuse me because I *[3 John 11]follow after good.

21 Do not forsake me, O Lord!

O my God, be not *See Ps. 10:1far from me!

22 *See Ps. 40:13Make haste to help me,

O Lord, my *See Ps. 27:1salvation!