Psalm 38:1–22

¹O Lord, do not ^brebuke me in Your wrath,

Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!

²For Your arrows pierce me deeply,

And Your hand presses me down.

³There is no soundness in my flesh

Because of Your anger,

Nor any health in my bones

Because of my sin.

⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head;

Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

⁵My wounds are foul and festering

Because of my foolishness.

⁶I am ¹troubled, I am bowed down greatly;

I go mourning all the day long.

⁷For my loins are full of inflammation,

And there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸I am feeble and severely broken;

I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

⁹Lord, all my desire is before You;

And my sighing is not hidden from You.

¹⁰My heart pants, my strength fails me;

As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

¹¹My loved ones and my friends ^cstand aloof from my plague,

And my relatives stand afar off.

¹²Those also who seek my life lay snares for me;

Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction,

And plan deception all the day long.

¹³But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;

And I am like a mute who does not open his mouth.

¹⁴Thus I am like a man who does not hear,

And in whose mouth is no response.

¹⁵For ²in You, O Lord, ^dI hope;

You will ³hear, O Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me,

Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me.”

^17eFor I am ready to fall,

And my sorrow is continually before me.

¹⁸For I will ^fdeclare my iniquity;

I will be ^gin ⁴anguish over my sin.

¹⁹But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong;

And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.

²⁰Those also ^hwho render evil for good,

They are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.

²¹Do not forsake me, O Lord;

O my God, ⁱbe not far from me!

²²Make haste to help me,

O Lord, my salvation!