Prayer in Time of Cleansing
1   O  LORD,  rebuke  me  not  in  your  wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2   For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me down.
3   There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest  in my bones because of my sin.
4   For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5   My wounds are foul and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6   I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7   For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8   I am feeble and utterly broken: I have groaned by reason of the turmoil of my heart.
9   Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
10  My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
11  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12  They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.
13   But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.
14   Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15   For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.
16   For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
17   For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18   For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19   But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20   They also that render evil for good are my adversaries;  because  I  follow the thing that is good.
21   Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22   Make  haste  to  help  me,  O  Lord  my salvation.