Psalm 32:3–9

3  For when I kept silent, my nbones wasted away

through my ogroaning all day long.

4  For day and night your phand was heavy upon me;

my strength was dried up2 as by the heat of summer. Selah

5  I qacknowledged my sin to you,

and I did not cover my iniquity;

I said, “I rwill confess my transgressions to the Lord,”

and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

6  Therefore let everyone who is sgodly

offer prayer to you at a time when you tmay be found;

surely in the rush of ugreat waters,

they shall not reach him.

7  You are a vhiding place for me;

you preserve me from wtrouble;

you surround me with xshouts of deliverance. Selah

8  I will yinstruct you and teach you in the way you should go;

I will zcounsel you with my eye upon you.

9  aBe not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,

which must be curbed with bbit and bridle,

or it will not stay near you.