Psalms 38
1 Yahweh, when you are angry [with me], do not rebuke/scold me and punish me!
A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day. O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger.
2 [Now it is as though] you have shot your arrows at me and wounded me; you have struck me and knocked me down.
For your weapons are fixed in me, and you have pressed your hand heavily upon me.
3 Because you have been angry with me, I am suffering great pain. Because of my sin, my whole body is diseased.
For there is no health in my flesh because of your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.
4 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.
For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.
5 Because I have done foolish things, I have sores that have become worse, and they stink.
My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
6 [Sometimes] I am bent over, and [sometimes] I lie prostrate; I am sad/cry all day.
I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day.
7 My body is burning with fever, and I am very ill.
For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.
8 I am completely exhausted, and I have no strength. I am very distressed, and I groan with pain.
I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.
9 Yahweh, you know that I desire [to be healed]; you hear me while I am groaning.
But all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.
10 My heat is pounding heavily, and all my strength is gone. I am no longer able to see well.
My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of mine eyes is not with me.
11 My friends and neighbors stay away from me because of my sores; even my own family stays away from me.
My friends and my neighbors drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.
12 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.
While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.
13 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].
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth.
14 I act like a man who does not answer [when people talk to him], because he cannot hear anything.
And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
15 But Yahweh, I trust in you. My Lord God, you will answer me.
For I hoped in you, O Lord: you will hear, O Lord my God.
16 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!”
For I said, Lest mine enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.
17 I say that because I am about to fall down, and I constantly have pain.
For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.
18 I confess the wrong things that I have done; I am [very] sorry for the sins that I have committed.
For I will declare mine iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.
19 My enemies are healthy and strong; there are many people who hate me for no reason.
But mine enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.
20 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.
They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness.
21 Yahweh, do not abandon me! My God, do not stay far from me!
Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me.
22 Lord, you are the one who saves/rescues me; Quickly [come and] help me!
Draw near to my help, O Lord of my salvation.
