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| O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger; *
do not punish me in your wrath.
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| 2
| For your arrows have already pierced me,
*
and your hand presses hard upon me.
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| 3
| There is no health in my flesh,
because of your indignation; *
there is no soundness in my body, because of my sin.
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| 4
| For my iniquities overwhelm me; *
like a heavy burden they are too much for me to bear.
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| 5
| My wounds stink and fester *
by reason of my foolishness.
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| 6
| I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; *
I go about in mourning all the day long.
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| 7
| My loins are filled with searing pain; *
there is no health in my body.
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| 8
| I am utterly numb and crushed; *
I wail, because of the groaning of my heart.
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| 9
| O Lord, you know all my desires, *
and my sighing is not hidden from you.
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| 10
| My heart is pounding, my strength has failed
me, *
and the brightness of my eyes is gone from me.
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| 11
| My friends and companions draw back from
my affliction; *
my neighbors stand afar off.
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| 12
| Those 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.
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| 13
| But I am like the deaf who do not hear, *
like those who are mute and who do not open their mouth.
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| 14
| I have become like one who does not hear
*
and from whose mouth comes no defense.
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| 15
| For in you, O LORD, have I fixed my hope;
*
you will answer me, O Lord my God.
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| 16
| For I said, "Do not let them rejoice
at my expense, *
those who gloat over me when my foot slips."
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| 17
| Truly, I am on the verge of falling, *
and my pain is always with me.
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| 18
| I will confess my iniquity *
and be sorry for my sin.
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| 19
| Those who are my enemies without cause are
mighty, *
and many in number are those who wrongfully hate me.
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| 20
| Those who repay evil for good slander me,
*
because I follow the course that is right.
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| 21
| O LORD, do not forsake me; *
be not far from me, O my God.
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| 22
| Make haste to help me, *
O Lord of my salvation.
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