Psalms 38
1 A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
A Psalme of Dauid for remembrance. O Lord, rebuke mee not in thine anger, neither chastise me in thy wrath.
2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me.
3 There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
There is nothing sound in my flesh, because of thine anger: neither is there rest in my bones because of my sinne.
4 For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head, and as a weightie burden they are too heauie for me.
5 My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
My woundes are putrified, and corrupt because of my foolishnes.
6 I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe mourning all the day.
7 For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
For my reines are full of burning, and there is nothing sound in my flesh.
8 I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
I am weakened and sore broken: I roare for the very griefe of mine heart.
9 O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
Lord, I powre my whole desire before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.
10 My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
Mine heart panteth: my strength faileth me, and the light of mine eyes, euen they are not mine owne.
11 My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
My louers and my friends stand aside from my plague, and my kinsmen stand a farre off.
12 Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.
13 But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
But I as a deafe man heard not, and am as a dumme man, which openeth not his mouth.
14 I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.
15 I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
For on thee, O Lord, do I waite: thou wilt heare me, my Lord, my God.
16 For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
For I said, Heare me, least they reioyce ouer me: for when my foote slippeth, they extol themselues against me.
17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
Surely I am ready to halte, and my sorow is euer before me.
18 Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
When I declare my paine, and am sory for my sinne,
19 Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
Then mine enemies are aliue and are mightie, and they that hate me wrongfully are many.
20 Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
They also, that rewarde euill for good, are mine aduersaries, because I follow goodnesse.
21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
Forsake me not, O Lord: be not thou farre from me, my God.
22 Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
Haste thee to helpe mee, O my Lord, my saluation.
