Psalms 38
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- 1LORD, do not rebuke me in your wrath; do not discipline me in your burning displeasure.
- 2For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me hard.
- 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
- 4For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
- 5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
- 6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all day long.
- 7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- 8I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the turmoil in my heart.
- 9Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.
- 10My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
- 11My lovers and my friends stand apart from my sore, and my kinsmen stand far off.
- 12Those who seek after my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all day long.
- 13But I, like a deaf man, did not hear; and I was like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
- 14Thus I was like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- 15For in you, O LORD, do I hope; you will hear, O Lord my God.
- 16For I said, Hear me, lest they should rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
- 17For I am about to fall, and my sorrow is always with me.
- 18For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
- 19But my enemies are lively, and they are strong; and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
- 20Those also who repay evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow the thing that is good.
- 21Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, do not be far from me.
- 22Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.