Psalms 38 / 150
- 1O LORD , do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
- 2For your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down upon me.
- 3Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin.
- 4My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
- 5My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
- 6I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
- 7My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
- 8I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
- 9All my longings lie open before you, O Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
- 10My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
- 11My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.
- 12Those who seek my life set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they plot deception.
- 13I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear, like a mute, who cannot open his mouth;
- 14I have become like a man who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
- 15I wait for you, O LORD ; you will answer, O Lord my God.
- 16For I said, "Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
- 17For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
- 18I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
- 19Many are those who are my vigorous enemies; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
- 20Those who repay my good with evil slander me when I pursue what is good.
- 21O LORD , do not forsake me; be not far from me, O my God.
- 22Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.