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Prayer in Time of Discipline.

¹ O LORD, do not ^(C1)rebuke me in Your wrath,
Nor discipline me in Your burning anger.

² For Your ^(C1)arrows have sunk into me and penetrate deeply,
And ^(C2)Your hand has pressed down on me and greatly disciplined me.

³ There is ^(C1)no soundness in my flesh ^(C2)because of Your indignation;
There is no health ^(C3)in my bones because of my sin.

⁴ For my ^(C1)iniquities have gone over my head like the waves of a flood;
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

⁵ My wounds are loathsome and foul
Because of ^(C1)my foolishness.

⁶ I am bent over and ^(C1)greatly bowed down;
I ^(C2)go about mourning all day long.

⁷ For my sides are filled with ^(C1)burning,
And there is ^(C2)no health in my flesh.

⁸ I am ^(C1)numb and greatly bruised deadly cold and completely worn out;
I ^(C2)groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart.

⁹ Lord, all ^(C1)my desire is before You;
And my ^(C2)sighing is not hidden from You.

¹⁰ My heart throbs violently, ^(C1)my strength fails me;
And as for the ^(C2)light of my eyes, even that has also gone from me.

¹¹ My ^(C1)loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my neighbors ^(C2)stand far away. ^(VR1)

¹² Those who ^(C1)seek my life ^(C2)lay snares for me,
And those who ^(C3)seek to injure me threaten mischievous things and destruction;
They ^(C4)devise treachery all the day long.

¹³ But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
I am like a ^(C1)mute man who does not open his mouth.

¹⁴ Yes, I am like a man who does not hear,
In whose mouth are no arguments.

¹⁵ For in You, O LORD, ^(C1)I hope;
You ^(C2)will answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶ For I pray, "May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, ^(C1)would boast against me."

¹⁷ For I am ^(C1)ready to fall;
^(C2)My sorrow is continually before me.

¹⁸ For I do ^(C1)confess my guilt and iniquity;
I am filled with ^(C2)anxiety because of my sin. ^(VR1)

¹⁹ But my ^(C1)numerous enemies are vigorous and strong,
And those who ^(C2)hate me without cause are many.

²⁰ They ^(C1)repay evil for good, they ^(C2)attack and try to kill me,
Because I follow what is good.

²¹ Do not abandon me, O LORD;
O my God, ^(C1)do not be far from me.

²² Make ^(C1)haste to help me,
O Lord, ^(C2)my Salvation.