I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.
When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse. I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
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