Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord

A Psalm of David, lfor the memorial offering.

¹O Lord, mrebuke me not in your anger,

nor discipline me in your wrath!

²For your narrows have sunk into me,

and your hand ohas come down on me.

³There is pno soundness in my flesh

because of your indignation;

there is no health in my qbones

because of my sin.

⁴For my riniquities have gone over my head;

like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

⁵My wounds stink and fester

because of my foolishness,

⁶I am sutterly bowed down and tprostrate;

all the day I ugo about mourning.

⁷For my sides are filled with burning,

and there is pno soundness in my flesh.

⁸I am feeble and crushed;

I vgroan because of the tumult of my heart.

⁹O Lord, all my longing is before you;

my wsighing is not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart throbs; my strength fails me,

and xthe light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.

¹¹My yfriends and companions zstand aloof from my aplague,

and my nearest kin bstand far off.

¹²Those who seek my life clay their snares;

those who seek my hurt dspeak of ruin

and meditate etreachery all day long.

¹³But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,

like fa mute man who does not open his mouth.

¹⁴I have become like a man who does not hear,

and in whose mouth are no grebukes.

¹⁵But for hyou, O Lord, do I wait;

it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

¹⁶For I said, “Only ilet them not rejoice over me,

who jboast against me when my kfoot slips!”

¹⁷For I am lready to fall,

and my pain is ever before me.

¹⁸I mconfess my iniquity;

I am nsorry for my sin.

¹⁹But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,

and many are those who hate me owrongfully.

²⁰Those who prender me evil for good

qaccuse me because I rfollow after good.

²¹Do not forsake me, O Lord!

O my God, be not sfar from me!

²²tMake haste to help me,

O Lord, my usalvation!