For He has not despised or detested
the torment of the afflicted.
He did not hide His face from him
but listened when he cried to Him for help.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You
and did not conceal my iniquity.
I said,
“I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and You took away the guilt of my sin.Selah

But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
they gathered against me.
Assailants I did not know
tore at me and did not stop.

I did not hide Your righteousness in my heart;
I spoke about Your faithfulness and salvation;
I did not conceal Your constant love and truth
from the great assembly.

For they did not take the land by their sword—
their arm did not bring them victory—
but by Your right hand, Your arm,
and the light of Your face,
for You were pleased with them.

Those who hate me without cause
are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me,
are powerful.
Though I did not steal, I must repay.

Did I purify my heart
and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?

I was stupid and didn’t understand;
I was an unthinking animal toward You.

They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law.

because they did not believe God
or rely on His salvation.

Despite all this, they kept sinning
and did not believe His wonderful works.

Yet He was compassionate;
He atoned for their guilt
and did not destroy them.
He often turned His anger aside
and did not unleash all His wrath.

They did not remember His power shown
on the day He redeemed them from the foe,

He cleared a path for His anger.
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep His decrees.

He rejected the tent of Joseph
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

“But My people did not listen to Me;
Israel did not obey Me.

Deal with them as You did with Midian,
as You did with Sisera
and Jabin at the Kishon River.

where your fathers tested Me;
they tried Me, though they had seen what I did.

He sent darkness, and it became dark—
for did they not defy His commands?

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp
the significance of Your wonderful works
or remember Your many acts of faithful love;
instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

They forgot God their Savior,
who did great things in Egypt,

They despised the pleasant land
and did not believe His promise.

They grumbled in their tents
and did not listen to the Lord’s voice.

They did not destroy the peoples
as the Lord had commanded them

For he did not think to show kindness,
but pursued the afflicted, poor, and brokenhearted
in order to put them to death.

The Lord disciplined me severely
but did not give me over to death.

Though the ropes of the wicked
were wrapped around me,
I did not forget Your instruction.

They almost ended my life on earth,
but I did not abandon Your precepts.