Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord

38 A Psalm of David, lfor the memorial offering.

1  O Lord, mrebuke me not in your anger,

nor discipline me in your wrath!

2  For your narrows have sunk into me,

and your hand ohas come down on me.

3  There is pno soundness in my flesh

because of your indignation;

there is no health in my qbones

because of my sin.

4  For my riniquities have gone over my head;

like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

5  My wounds stink and fester

because of my foolishness,

6  I am sutterly bowed down and tprostrate;

all the day I ugo about mourning.

7  For my sides are filled with burning,

and there is pno soundness in my flesh.

8  I am feeble and crushed;

I vgroan because of the tumult of my heart.

9  O Lord, all my longing is before you;

my wsighing is not hidden from you.

10  My heart throbs; my strength fails me,

and xthe light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.

11  My yfriends and companions zstand aloof from my aplague,

and my nearest kin bstand far off.

12  Those who seek my life clay their snares;

those who seek my hurt dspeak of ruin

and meditate etreachery all day long.

13  But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,

like fa mute man who does not open his mouth.

14  I have become like a man who does not hear,

and in whose mouth are no grebukes.

15  But for hyou, O Lord, do I wait;

it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

16  For I said, “Only ilet them not rejoice over me,

who jboast against me when my kfoot slips!”

17  For I am lready to fall,

and my pain is ever before me.

18  I mconfess my iniquity;

I am nsorry for my sin.

19  But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,

and many are those who hate me owrongfully.

20  Those who prender me evil for good

qaccuse me because I rfollow after good.

21  Do not forsake me, O Lord!

O my God, be not sfar from me!

22  tMake haste to help me,

O Lord, my usalvation!