The Prayer of a Suffering Penitent |
| A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. |
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O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath:
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neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. |
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For thine arrows stick fast in me,
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and thy hand presseth me sore. |
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There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;
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neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. |
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For mine iniquities are gone over mine head:
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as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. |
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My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
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I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly;
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I go mourning all the day long. |
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For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease:
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and there is no soundness in my flesh. |
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I am feeble and sore broken:
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I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. |
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Lord, all my desire is before thee;
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and my groaning is not hid from thee. |
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My heart panteth, my strength faileth me:
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as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. |
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My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore;
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and my kinsmen stand afar off. |
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They also that seek after my life lay snares for me;
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and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, |
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and imagine deceits all the day long. |
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But I, as a deaf man, heard not;
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and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. |
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Thus I was as a man that heareth not,
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and in whose mouth are no reproofs. |
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For in thee, O LORD, do I hope:
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thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. |
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For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me:
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when my foot slippeth, |
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they magnify themselves against me. |
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For I am ready to halt,
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and my sorrow is continually before me. |
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For I will declare mine iniquity;
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I will be sorry for my sin. |
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But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong:
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and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. |
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They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;
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because I follow the thing that good is. |
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Forsake me not, O LORD:
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O my God, be not far from me. |
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Make haste to help me,
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