Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
(Psalm 6:1–10)

1A Psalm of David, for remembrance.

1 O YHWH, do not rebuke me in Your wrath

and chastise me in Your fury.

2For Your arrows descend into me,

and Your hand comes down on me.

3No soundness is in my flesh

before the face of Your anger;

no peace is in my bones

before the face of my sin.

4For my iniquities have passed over my head;

like a heavy burden, they are heavy for me.

5My wounds are foul and festering,

before the face of my foolishness.

6I am bent, I am bowed down even to excess;

all the day I go about mourning.

7For my loins are full of burning,

and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8I am numb and crushed, even to excess;

I roar from the groaning of my heart.

9O Lord, all my desire is before You,

and my groaning is not hidden from You.

10My heart pounds, my strength has forsaken me,

and the light of my eyes—even they are not with me.

11My beloved and my friends stand away from my plague;

my neighbors stand far off.

12And those seeking my soul lay snares,

and those searching out my harm speak;

they ponder destruction and treachery all the day.

13And I am like a deaf one who does not hear

and like a mute one who does not open his mouth.

14And I am like a man who is not hearing,

and in his mouth are no rebukes,

15because for You, O YHWH, I have waited;

You will answer, O Lord my God.

16For I said,

“Lest they rejoice over me;

in the slipping of my foot

they magnify themselves against me.”

17For I am ready to fall,

and my sorrow is before me continually.

18For I declare my iniquity;

I am anxious over my sin.

19And my enemies without cause are many,†

and those hating me without cause have been multiplied.†

20And those repaying evil for good,

they oppose me, because of my pursuing good.

21Do not forsake me, O YHWH;

O my God, do not be far from me!

22Hurry to help me,

O Lord, my salvation.