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Domine, ne in furoreBCP p. 6361O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger; *do not punish me in your wrath.
2For your arrows have already pierced me, *and your hand presses hard upon me.
3There is no health in my flesh, because of your indignation; *there is no soundness in my body, because of my sin.
4For my iniquities overwhelm me; *like a heavy burden they are too much for me to bear.
5My wounds stink and fester *by reason of my foolishness.
6I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; *I go about in mourning all the day long.
7My loins are filled with searing pain; *there is no health in my body.
8I am utterly numb and crushed; *I wail, because of the groaning of my heart.
9O Lord, you know all my desires, *and my sighing is not hidden from you.
10My heart is pounding, my strength has failed me, *and the brightness of my eyes is gone from me.
11My friends and companions draw back from my affliction; *my neighbors stand afar off.
12Those who seek after my life lay snares for me; *those who strive to hurt me speak of my ruin and plot treachery all the day long.
13But I am like the deaf who do not hear, *like those who are mute and who do not open their mouth.
14I have become like one who does not hear *and from whose mouth comes no defense.
15For in you, O Lord, have I fixed my hope; *you will answer me, O Lord my God.
16For I said, “Do not let them rejoice at my expense, *those who gloat over me when my foot slips.”
17Truly, I am on the verge of falling, *and my pain is always with me.
18I will confess my iniquity *and be sorry for my sin.
19Those who are my enemies without cause are mighty, *and many in number are those who wrongfully hate me.
20Those who repay evil for good slander me, *because I follow the course that is right.