Ps 38
0 Psalm 38 A Psalm of David,
to bring to remembrance.
1
O YHWH, rebuke me not in your anger; Neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2
For your arrows stick fast in me, And your hand presses me sore.
3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; Neither is there any
health in my bones because of my sin.
4
For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for
me.
5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
6
I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7
For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
8
I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9
Lord, all my desire is before you; And my groaning is not hid from you.
10
My heart throbs, my strength fails me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone
from me.
11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
12
They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; And they that seek my hurt
speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
13
But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.
14
Yea, I am as a man that hears not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15
For in you, O YHWH, do I hope: You will answer, O Lord my God.
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For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slips, they magnify themselves
against me.
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For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
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For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19
But mine enemies are lively, [and] are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are
multiplied.
20
They also that render evil for good Are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing
that is good.
21
Forsake me not, O YHWH: O my God, be not far from me.
22
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.