Do Not Forsake Me, O Yahweh
A Psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.
O Yahweh, areprove me not in Your wrath,
And discipline me not in Your burning anger.
2 For Your aarrows have pressed deep into me,
And bYour hand has pressed down upon me.
3 There is ano soundness in my flesh bbecause of Your indignation;
There is no health cin my bones because of my sin.
4 For my ainiquities go over my head;
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
5 My wounds stink and rot
Because of amy folly.
6 I am bent over and agreatly bowed down;
I bgo mourning all day long.
7 For my loins are filled with aburning,
And there is bno soundness in my flesh.
8 I am afaint and badly crushed;
I bgroan because of the agitation of my heart.
9 Lord, all amy desire is before You;
And my bsighing is not hidden from You.
10 My heart throbs, amy strength forsakes me;
And the blight of my eyes, even that has gone from me.
11 My aloved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my kinsmen bstand afar off.
12 Those who asearch for my life blay snares for me;
And those who cseek to do me evil have threatened destruction,
And they dmeditate on deception all day long.
13 But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a amute man who does not open his mouth.
14 And I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 For aI wait on You, O Yahweh;
You bwill answer, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, “Save, lest they be glad over me,
Who, when my foot stumbles, amagnify themselves against me.”
17 For I am aready to fall,
And bmy sorrow is continually before me.
18 For I aconfess my iniquity;
I am full of banxiety because of my sin.
19 But my aenemies are vigorous and strong,
And those who wrongfully bhate me abound.
20 And those who arepay evil for good,
They baccuse me, for I pursue what is good.
21 Do not forsake me, O Yahweh;
O my God, ado not be far from me!
22 Make ahaste to help me,
O Lord, bmy salvation!