Psalm 38

¹LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,

neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

²For your arrows have pierced me,

your hand presses hard on me.

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,

neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head.

As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt

because of my foolishness.

⁶I am in pain and bowed down greatly.

I go mourning all day long.

⁷For my waist is filled with burning.

There is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸I am faint and severely bruised.

I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

⁹Lord, all my desire is before you.

My groaning is not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart throbs.

My strength fails me.

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

¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.

My kinsmen stand far away.

¹²They also who seek after my life lay snares.

Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things,

and meditate deceits all day long.

¹³But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear.

I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

¹⁴Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear,

in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁵For I hope in you, LORD.

You will answer, Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me,

or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

¹⁷For I am ready to fall.

My pain is continually before me.

¹⁸For I will declare my iniquity.

I will be sorry for my sin.

¹⁹But my enemies are vigourous and many.

Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

²⁰They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me,

because I follow what is good.

²¹Don’t forsake me, LORD.

My God, don’t be far from me.

²²Hurry to help me,

Lord, my salvation.