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. 16 For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me. 17 For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me. 18 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.