For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments, according to the sheminith style;
6:1 Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger!
Do not discipline me in your raging fury!
6:2 Have mercy on me,
Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking!
22:14 My strength drains away like water;
all my bones are dislocated;
my heart
it melts away inside me.
22:15 The roof of my mouth
my tongue sticks to my gums.
You
A psalm of David, written to get God’s attention.
38:1 O Lord, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger!
Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury!
38:2 For your arrows pierce
and your hand presses me down.
38:3 My whole body is sick because of your judgment;
I am deprived of health because of my sin.
38:4 For my sins overwhelm me;
like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.
38:5 My wounds
because of my foolish sins.
38:6 I am dazed
all day long I walk around mourning.
38:7 For I am overcome with shame
and my whole body is sick.
38:8 I am numb with pain and severely battered;
I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
38:9 O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire;
my groaning is not hidden from you.
38:10 My heart beats quickly;
my strength leaves me;
I can hardly see.
44:25 For we lie in the dirt,
with our bellies pressed to the ground.
73:14 I suffer all day long,
and am punished every morning.”
73:26 My flesh and my heart may grow weak,
but God always
88:3 For my life
and I am ready to enter Sheol.
88:4 They treat me like
I am like a helpless man,
88:5 adrift
like corpses lying in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
and who are cut off from your power.
102:3 For my days go up in smoke,
and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
102:4 My heart is parched
for I am unable
102:5 Because of the anxiety that makes me groan,
my bones protrude from my skin.
107:10 They sat in utter darkness,
bound in painful iron chains,
33:19 Or a person is chastened
and with the continual strife of his bones,
33:20 so that his life loathes food,
and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
33:21 His flesh wastes away from sight,
and his bones, which were not seen,
are easily visible.
33:22 He
and his life to the messengers of death.