Psalm 38

A Psalm of David, *to bring to remembrance.

1  O aLord, rebuke me not in thy wrath:

Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

2  For bthine arrows stick fast in me,

And cthy hand presseth me sore.

3  There is dno soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;

Neither is there any †rest in emy bones because of my sin.

4  For fmine iniquities are gone over mine head:

As an heavy burden they are too gheavy for me.

5  My hwounds stink and are corrupt

Because of my foolishness.

6  I am †troubled; I am ibowed down greatly;

kI go imourning all the day long.

7  For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease:

And there is dno soundness in my flesh.

8  I am feeble and lsore broken:

I have mroared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

9  Lord, all my desire is before thee;

And nmy groaning is not hid from thee.

10  My heart panteth, my strength faileth me:

As for othe light of mine eyes, it also †is gone from me.

11  pMy lovers and my friends qstand aloof from my †sore;

And ||my rkinsmen sstand afar off.

12  They also that seek after my life tlay snares for me:

And they that seek my hurt tspeak umischievous things,

And imagine xdeceits all the day long.

13  But yI, as a deaf man, heard not;

And I was zas a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

14  yThus I was as a man that heareth not,

And in whose mouth are no areproofs.

15  For ||in thee, O Lord, do I hope:

Thou wilt ||hear, O Lord my God.

16  For I said, Hear me, blest otherwise they should rejoice over me:

When cmy foot slippeth, they dmagnify themselves against me.

17  For I am eready †to halt,

And my sorrow is continually before me.

18  For fI will declare mine iniquity;

gI will be sorry for my sin.

19  But mine enemies †are hlively, and they are strong:

And they that hate me iwrongfully are multiplied.

20  They also that krender evil for good lare mine adversaries;

mBecause I follow the thing that good is.

21  Forsake me not, O Lord:

O my God, nbe not far from me.

22  Make haste †to help me,

O Lord omy salvation.