If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; fo
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done ou
See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious.
Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their o
If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!