Psalms 38

¹A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

²For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

³There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

⁴For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

⁵My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

⁶I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

⁷For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

⁸I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

⁹O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.

¹⁰My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

¹¹My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

¹²Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.

¹³But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.

¹⁴I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.

¹⁵I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

¹⁷For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

¹⁸Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

¹⁹Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

²⁰Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

²¹Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.

²²Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.

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