| 1 | Yahweh, 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, Yahweh, 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, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me. |
| 22 | Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. Psalm 39 For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. |
