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[1]A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
[2]For thy arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand falleth heavy upon me.
[3]There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
[4]For my iniquities have gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
[5]My wounds are offensive, and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
[6]I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
[7]For my loins are filled with a lothsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
[8]I am feeble and grievously broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
[9]Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
[10]My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me.
[11]My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my affliction; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
[12]They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
[13]But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
[14]Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
[15]For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
[16]For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
[17]For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
[18]For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
[19]But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
[20]They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.
[21]Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
[22]Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
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