Psalms - Chapter 38 | New International Version

  • 1. {A psalm of David. A petition.} O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
  • 2. For your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down upon me.
  • 3. Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness 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, O 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 seek my life set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they plot deception.
  • 13. I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear, like a mute, who cannot open his mouth;
  • 14. I have become like a man who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
  • 15. I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God.
  • 16. For I said, "Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
  • 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 are those who are my vigorous enemies; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
  • 20. Those who repay my good with evil slander me when I pursue what is good.
  • 21. O LORD, do not forsake me; be not far from me, O my God.
  • 22. Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
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