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For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David [Beloved].
Context: David [Beloved] commits adultery with Bathsheba, wife of Uriah [My light Yah]. Later he experiences great remorse and repentance. (2 Sam 11-12)
1 Adonai, don’t rebuke me in your anger,
neither discipline me in your wrath.
2 Have mercy on me, Adonai, for I am faint.
Adonai, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
3 My soul is also in great anguish.
But you, Adonai, how long?
4 Teshuvah ·Completely return·, Adonai. Deliver my soul,
and save me for your chesed ·loving-kindness’· sake.
5 For in death there is no memory of you.
In Sheol ·Place of the dead·, who shall yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to you?
6 I am weary with my groaning.
Every night I flood my bed.
I drench my couch with my tears.
7 My eye wastes away because of grief.
It grows old because of all my adversaries.
8 Depart from me, all you workers of vain striving of iniquity, *
for Adonai has sh'ma ·heard obeyed· the voice of my weeping.
9 Adonai has sh'ma ·heard obeyed· my supplication.
Adonai accepts my prayer.
10 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed.
They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
* 6:8 . Quoted in Matt 7:23, 25:41; Luke 13:27