Psalm 6

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Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

¹For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments, according to Sheminith.^a A Psalm of David.

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger

or discipline me in Your wrath.

¹For the one directing. With stringed instruments according to Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O YHWH, in Your anger do not rebuke me, and do not discipline me in Your rage.

²Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail;

heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

²Be gracious to me, O YHWH, for I am weak; heal me, O YHWH, for my bones are disturbed.

³My soul is deeply distressed.

How long, O LORD, how long?

³And my soul is disturbed greatly; and You, O YHWH, until when?

⁴Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul;

save me because of Your loving devotion.

⁴Return, O YHWH, draw out my soul; save me for the sake of Your loving devotion.

⁵For there is no mention of You in death;

who can praise You from Sheol?

⁵For in death is no remembrance of You; in Sheol, who can give thanks to You?

⁶I am weary from groaning;

all night I flood my bed with weeping

and drench my couch with tears.

⁶I have grown weary in my sighing; I cause my bed to swim through all the night; with my tears I melt my couch.

⁷My eyes fail from grief;

they grow dim because of all my foes.

⁷My eye has wasted away from grief; it grows old because of all afflicting me.

⁸Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,

for the LORD has heard my weeping.

⁸Turn away from me, all workers of iniquity, for YHWH has heard the voice of my weeping.

⁹The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;

the LORD accepts my prayer.

⁹YHWH has heard my supplication; YHWH has received my prayer.

¹⁰All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed;

they will turn back in sudden disgrace.

¹⁰Let all my enemies be ashamed and disturbed greatly; let them turn back and be ashamed in an instant.