Psalm 38
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1A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.1O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!
2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.2For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.4For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.5My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.6I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.7For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.8I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.9O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.10My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.11My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.12Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.13But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.14I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
15For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.15But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.16For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!”
17For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.17For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.
18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.18I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
19But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.19But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.20Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.
21Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.21Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me!
22Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.22Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
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