³ My body is unhealthy due to your anger,
    and my bones have no rest due to my sin.
⁴ My iniquities loom over my head;
    like a cumbersome burden, they are too heavy for me.

⁵ My wounds have putrefied and festered
    because of my foolishness.
⁶ I am bent over and walk about greatly bowed down;
    all day long I go around mourning.
⁷ My insides^[a] are burning
    and my body is unhealthy.
⁸ I am weak and utterly crushed;
    I cry out in distress because of my heart’s anguish.

⁹ Lord, all my longings are before you,
    and my groaning is not hidden from you.
¹⁰ My heart pounds,
    my strength fails me,
        even the gleam in my eye is gone.
¹¹ As for my friends and my neighbors,
    they stand aloof from my distress;
        even my close relatives stand at a distance.
¹² Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
    those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.

¹³ I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,
    and like the mute, who cannot open his mouth.
¹⁴ Indeed, I have become like a man who hears nothing,
    and in whose mouth there is no rebuke.

¹⁵ Because I have placed my hope in you, Lord,
    you will answer, Lord, my God.
¹⁶ For I said, “Do not let them gloat over me,
    as they congratulate themselves when my foot slips.”

¹⁷ Indeed, I am being set up for a fall,
    and I am continuously reminded of my pain.
¹⁸ I confess my iniquity,
    and my sin troubles me.

¹⁹ But my enemies are alive and well;^[b]
    those who hate me^[c] for no reason are numerous.^[d]
20 They^[e] reward my good with evil,
    opposing me because I seek to do good.^[f]

²¹ Don’t forsake me, Lord.
    My God, do not be so distant from me.
²² Come quickly and help me,
    Lord, my deliverer.