Psalm 38
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v1
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
v2
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
v3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
v4
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
v5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
v6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
v7
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
v8
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
v9
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
v10
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
v11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
v12
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
v13
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
v14
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
v15
For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.
v16
For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
v17
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
v18
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
v19
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
v20
They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
v21
Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
v22
Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.