Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord
A Psalm of David, afor the memorial offering.
O Lord, brebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath!
2 For your aarrows have sunk into me,
and your hand bhas come down on me.
3 There is ano soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bbones
because of my sin.
4 For my ainiquities 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 autterly bowed down and bprostrate;
all the day I cgo about mourning.
7 For my sides are filled with burning,
and there is ano soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and crushed;
I agroan because of the tumult of my heart.
9 O Lord, all my longing is before you;
my asighing is not hidden from you.
10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
and athe light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
11 My afriends and companions bstand aloof from my cplague,
and my nearest kin dstand far off.
12 Those who seek my life alay their snares;
those who seek my hurt bspeak of ruin
and meditate ctreachery all day long.
13 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
like aa 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 arebukes.
15 But for ayou, O Lord, do I wait;
it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
16 For I said, “Only alet them not rejoice over me,
who bboast against me when my cfoot slips!”
17 For I am aready to fall,
and my pain is ever before me.
18 I aconfess my iniquity;
I am bsorry for my sin.
19 But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,
and many are those who hate me awrongfully.
20 Those who arender me evil for good
baccuse me because I cfollow after good.
21 Do not forsake me, O Lord!
O my God, be not afar from me!
22 aMake haste to help me,
O Lord, my bsalvation!