Psalms 38

 

Psalms 38

 

¹ LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

 

² Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.

 

³ Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.

 

⁴ My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.

 

⁵ My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.

 

⁶ I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.

 

⁷ My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.

 

⁸ I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

 

⁹ All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.

 

¹⁰ My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.

 

¹¹ My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.

 

¹² Those who want to kill me set their traps,

those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.

 

¹³ I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;

 

¹⁴ I have become like one who does not hear,

whose mouth can offer no reply.

 

¹⁵ LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.

 

¹⁶ For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”

 

¹⁷ For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

 

¹⁸ I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

 

¹⁹ Many have become my enemies without cause; those who hate me without reason are numerous.

 

²⁰ Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.

 

²¹ LORD, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.

 

²² Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.