Dual Panel1 A psalm of David. A petition. O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
2For your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down upon me.
3Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin.
4My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
5My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
6I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
7My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
8I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
9All my longings lie open before you, O Lord: my sighing is not hidden from you.
10My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
11My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbours stay far away.
12Those who seek my life set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they plot deception.
13I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear, like a mute, who cannot open his mouth;
14I have become like a man who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
15I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God.
16For I said, "Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
17For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
18I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
19Many are those who are my vigorous enemies; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
20Those who repay my good with evil slander me when I pursue what is good.
21O LORD, do not forsake me; be not far from me, O my God.
22Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Saviour.