1 Yahweh, don’t reprove me in your anger,
don’t discipline me with your wrath.
2 Be gracious to me, Yahweh, because I’m faint;
heal me, Yahweh, because my bones shake in fearfulness.
3 My entire being s hakes in great fearfulness,
and you, Yahweh – how long?
4 Turn back, Yahweh, pull me out,
deliver me for the sake of your commitment!
5 Because there’s no commemoration of you in death;
in She’ol who confesses you?
6 I’m weary of my groaning,
I make my bed swim every night,
I melt my mattress with my tears.
7 My eye has wasted away through provocation,
grown old because of all my adversaries.
8 Depart from me, all you who devise trouble,
because Yahweh has heard the sound of my crying.
9 Yahweh has heard my prayer for grace;
Yahweh receives my plea.
10 All my enemies will be shamed and be very fearful;
they will turn back and be shamed instantly.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.