For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. _There is_ no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither _is there any_ rest in my bones because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink _and_ are corrupt because of my foolishness. I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with a loathsome _disease_: and _there is_ no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. LORD, all my desire _is_ before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. They also that seek after my life lay snares _for me_: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf _man_, heard not; and _I was_ as a dumb man _that_ openeth not his mouth. Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth _are_ no reproofs. For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O LORD my God. For I said, _Hear me_; lest _otherwise_ they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify _themselves_ against me. For I _am_ ready to halt, and my sorrow _is_ continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. But mine enemies _are_ lively, _and_ they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow _the thing that_ good _is_. Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O LORD my salvation.