1 O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger

or chastise me in your wrath.

2 For your arrows have sunk into me,

and your hand has pressed down on me.

3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation.

There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

4 For my iniquities have passed over my head;

like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

5 My wounds start to stink; they rot

because of my foolishness.

6 I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly.

All the day I go about mourning.

7 For my loins are full of burning,

and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am faint and crushed greatly;

I groan because of the roaring of my heart.

9 O Lord, all my longing is before you,

and my sighing is not hidden from you.

10 My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me;

and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.

11 My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,

and my relatives stand afar off.

12 Those who seek my life lay snares as well,

and those intent on my harm speak threats.

They also plot deceit all day.

13 But as for me, like the deaf I cannot hear,

and I am like the mute who cannot open his mouth.

14 And so I am like a man who hears not,

and in whose mouth there are no retorts.