Psalms 38

¹O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
²For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
⁴For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
⁶I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
⁷For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
⁹Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.
¹⁰My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
¹²They also that seek after my life lay snares [supplied: for me]; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
¹³But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
¹⁴Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
¹⁵For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope: Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.
¹⁶For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
¹⁷For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
¹⁸For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
¹⁹But mine enemies are lively, [supplied: and] are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
²⁰They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
²¹Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.
²²Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation. Psalm 39 For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

Words in italics were supplied by the translators.

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