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.
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.
O my God, nbe not far from me.
22 Make haste †to help me,
O Lord omy salvation.