For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument.a
1 O LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your rage.
1 O LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your rage.
2 Have compassion on me, LORD, for I am weak.
Heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.
Heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.
3 I am sick at heart.
How long, O LORD, until you restore me?
How long, O LORD, until you restore me?
4 Return, O LORD, and rescue me.
Save me because of your unfailing love.
Save me because of your unfailing love.
5 For the dead do not remember you.
Who can praise you from the grave?b
Who can praise you from the grave?b
6 I am worn out from sobbing.
All night I flood my bed with weeping,
drenching it with my tears.
All night I flood my bed with weeping,
drenching it with my tears.
7 My vision is blurred by grief;
my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.
my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.
8 Go away, all you who do evil,
for the LORD has heard my weeping.
for the LORD has heard my weeping.
9 The LORD has heard my plea;
the LORD will answer my prayer.
the LORD will answer my prayer.
10 May all my enemies be disgraced and terrified.
May they suddenly turn back in shame.
May they suddenly turn back in shame.