O Lord, Deliver My Life

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith.1 A Psalm of David.

¹O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,

nor discipline me in your wrath.

²Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;

heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

³My soul also is greatly troubled.

But you, O Lord—how long?

⁴Turn, O Lord, deliver my life;

save me for the sake of your steadfast love.

⁵For in death there is no remembrance of you;

in Sheol who will give you praise?

⁶I am weary with my moaning;

every night I flood my bed with tears;

I drench my couch with my weeping.

⁷My eye wastes away because of grief;

it grows weak because of all my foes.

⁸Depart from me, all you workers of evil,

for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

⁹The Lord has heard my plea;

the Lord accepts my prayer.

¹⁰All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;

they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.

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