Psalms - Chapter 38 | English Standard Version

  • 1. A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!
  • 2. For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
  • 3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
  • 4. For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
  • 5. My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
  • 6. I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
  • 7. For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
  • 8. I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
  • 9. O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
  • 10. My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.
  • 11. My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
  • 12. Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
  • 13. But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
  • 14. I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
  • 15. But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
  • 16. For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!"
  • 17. For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.
  • 18. I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
  • 19. But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
  • 20. Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.
  • 21. Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me!
  • 22. Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
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