I still dread all my pains, for I know You will not find me innocent.
My flesh shudders for fear of You, and I am in awe of Your judgments.
If You, Adonai, kept a record of iniquities— my Lord, who could stand?
When I think of it, I am terrified and my flesh shudders.
For then You will number my steps; You will not keep track of my sin;
If I sinned, You would watch me, and not acquit me of my iniquity.
“Truly I know it is so, but how can one be righteous before God?
Why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and You will search for me, but I will be gone.”
For the thing I dreaded has come upon me, and what I feared has happened to me.
“You must not take the Name of Adonai your God in vain, for Adonai will not hold him guiltless that takes His Name in vain.
“Yet, if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain, does it not go away from me?
Yet, He has found fault with me; He considers me His enemy.