< Psalms 38 >

1 A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day. O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger.
O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2 For your weapons are fixed in me, and you have pressed your hand heavily upon me.
For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.
3 For there is no health in my flesh because of your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day.
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the chaos of my heart.
9 But all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.
Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
10 My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of mine eyes is not with me.
My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 My friends and my neighbours drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand far off.
12 While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.
They 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.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth.
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.
14 And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 For I hoped in you, O Lord: you will hear, O Lord my God.
For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, Lest mine enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
17 For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19 But mine enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20 They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness.
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
21 Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me.
Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22 Draw near to my help, O Lord of my salvation.
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

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