For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument.*
1O LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your rage.
2Have compassion on me, LORD, for I am weak.
Heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.
3I am sick at heart.
How long, O LORD, until you restore me?
4Return, O LORD, and rescue me.
Save me because of your unfailing love.
5For the dead do not remember you.
Who can praise you from the grave?*
6I am worn out from sobbing.
All night I flood my bed with weeping,
drenching it with my tears.
7My vision is blurred by grief;
my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.
8Go away, all you who do evil,
for the LORD has heard my weeping.
9The LORD has heard my plea;
the LORD will answer my prayer.
10May all my enemies be disgraced and terrified.
May they suddenly turn back in shame.