1. The LORD, don't rebuke me in your wrath,neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

2. For your arrows have pierced me,your hand presses hard on me.

3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,neither is there any health 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 loathsome and corrupt,because of my foolishness.

6. I am pained and bowed down greatly.I go mourning all day long.

7. For my waist is filled with burning.There is no soundness in my flesh.

8. I am faint and severely bruised.I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

9. Lord, all my desire is before you.My groaning is not hidden from you.

10. My heart throbs.My strength fails me.As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

11. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.My kinsmen stand far away.

12. They also who seek after my life lay snares.Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things,and meditate deceits all day long.

13. But I, as a deaf man, don't hear.I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

14. Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear,in whose mouth are no reproofs.

15. For in you, The LORD, do I hope.You will answer, Lord my God.

16. For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me,or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

17. For I am ready to fall.My pain is continually before me.

18. For I will declare my iniquity.I will be sorry for my sin.

19. But my enemies are vigorous and many.Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

20. They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me,because I follow what is good.

21. Don't forsake me, The LORD.My God, don't be far from me.

22. Hurry to help me,Lord, my salvation.

1. Blessed is he who considers the poor.The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

2. The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive.He shall be blessed on the earth,and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

3. The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed,and restore him from his bed of illness.

4. I said, "The LORD, have mercy on me!Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

5. My enemies speak evil against me:"When will he die, and his name perish?"

6. If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.His heart gathers iniquity to itself.When he goes abroad, he tells it.

7. All who hate me whisper together against me.They imagine the worst for me.

8. "An evil disease", they say, "has afflicted him.Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."

9. Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,who ate bread with me,has lifted up his heel against me.

10. But you, The LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up,that I may repay them.

11. By this I know that you delight in me,because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.

12. As for me, you uphold me in my integrity,and set me in your presence forever.

13. Blessed be The LORD, the God of Israel,from everlasting and to everlasting!Amen and amen.