Psalms 38
1 A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
Yahweh, when you are angry [with me], do not rebuke/scold me and punish me!
2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
[Now it is as though] you have shot your arrows at me and wounded me; you have struck me and knocked me down.
3 There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
Because you have been angry with me, I am suffering great pain. Because of my sin, my whole body is diseased.
4 For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
All my sins are [like a flood] that covers my head; they are like a load that is very heavy, with the result that I cannot carry it.
5 My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
Because I have done foolish things, I have sores that have become worse, and they stink.
6 I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
[Sometimes] I am bent over, and [sometimes] I lie prostrate; I am sad/cry all day.
7 For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
My body is burning with fever, and I am very ill.
8 I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
I am completely exhausted, and I have no strength. I am very distressed, and I groan with pain.
9 O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
Yahweh, you know that I desire [to be healed]; you hear me while I am groaning.
10 My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
My heat is pounding heavily, and all my strength is gone. I am no longer able to see well.
11 My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
My friends and neighbors stay away from me because of my sores; even my own family stays away from me.
12 Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
And those who want to kill me set traps to catch me; those who want to harm me discuss ways to get rid of me; they plot against me all day.
13 But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
Now I act like I’m deaf, and do not listen [to what they say]. I act like I cannot talk, so I say nothing [to reply to them].
14 I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
I act like a man who does not answer [when people talk to him], because he cannot hear anything.
15 I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
But Yahweh, I trust in you. My Lord God, you will answer me.
16 For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
I said to you, “Do not cause [me to die, with the result that] my enemies will rejoice! Do not cause me to stumble, with the result that they will be very happy!”
17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
I say that because I am about to fall down, and I constantly have pain.
18 Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
I confess the wrong things that I have done; I am [very] sorry for the sins that I have committed.
19 Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
My enemies are healthy and strong; there are many people who hate me for no reason.
20 Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
Those who do evil things to me in return for my doing good things to them oppose me because I try to do what is right.
21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
Yahweh, do not abandon me! My God, do not stay far from me!
22 Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
Lord, you are the one who saves/rescues me; Quickly [come and] help me!
