Psalm 38

¹O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger,

or discipline me in your wrath.

²For your arrows have sunk into me,

and your hand has come down on me.

³There is no soundness in my flesh

because of your indignation;

there is no health in my bones

because of my sin.

⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head;

they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.

⁵My wounds grow foul and fester

because of my foolishness;

⁶I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;

all day long I go around mourning.

⁷For my loins are filled with burning,

and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸I am utterly spent and crushed;

I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

⁹O Lord, all my longing is known to you;

my sighing is not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart throbs, my strength fails me;

as for the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.

¹¹My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,

and my neighbors stand far off.

¹²Those who seek my life lay their snares;

those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin,

and meditate treachery all day long.

¹³But I am like the deaf, I do not hear;

like the mute, who cannot speak.

¹⁴Truly, I am like one who does not hear,

and in whose mouth is no retort.

¹⁵But it is for you, O Lord, that I wait;

it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

¹⁶For I pray, “Only do not let them rejoice over me,

those who boast against me when my foot slips.”

¹⁷For I am ready to fall,

and my pain is ever with me.

¹⁸I confess my iniquity;

I am sorry for my sin.

¹⁹Those who are my foes without cause are mighty,

and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

²⁰Those who render me evil for good

are my adversaries because I follow after good.

²¹Do not forsake me, O Lord;

O my God, do not be far from me;

²²make haste to help me,

O Lord, my salvation.