Psalms 38
1 O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory. O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.
2 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.
For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
10 My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.
12 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.
Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.
But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.
15 For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.
In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
18 For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.
19 But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.
20 They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Come quickly to give me help, O Lord, my salvation.
