Yahweh, Rescue My Soul
For the choir director. With stringed instruments. According to the● Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
O Yahweh, ado not reprove me in Your anger,Nor discipline me in Your wrath.Possibly an eight-string instrument or a title for a tune, cf. 1 Chr 15:21Ps 38:1; 118:182 Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, for I am apining away;bHeal me, O Yahweh, for cmy bones are dismayed.Ps 102:4, 11Ps 41:4; 147:3; Hos 6:1Ps 22:14; 31:103 And my asoul is greatly dismayed;But You, O Yahweh—bhow long?Ps 88:3; John 12:27Ps 90:13
4 Return, O Yahweh, arescue my 1soul;Save me because of Your lovingkindness.Or lifePs 17:135 For athere is no remembrance of You in death;In Sheol who will give You thanks?Ps 30:9; 88:10-12; 115:17; Eccl 9:10; Is 38:18
6 I am aweary with my sighing;Every night I make my bed swim,I flood my couch with bmy tears.Ps 69:3Ps 42:37 My aeye has wasted away with grief;It has become old because of all my adversaries.Job 17:7; Ps 31:9; 38:10
8 aDepart from me, all you workers of iniquity,For Yahweh bhas heard the sound of my weeping.Ps 119:115; Matt 7:23; Luke 13:27Ps 3:4; 28:69 Yahweh ahas heard my supplication,Yahweh breceives my prayer.Ps 116:1Ps 66:19, 2010 All my enemies will abe ashamed and greatly dismayed;They shall 1turn back, they will bsuddenly be ashamed.Or again be ashamed suddenlyPs 71:13, 24Ps 73:19