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Psalms

Chapter 38

  • 1

    O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

  • 2

    For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

  • 3

    There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

  • 4

    For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

  • 5

    My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

  • 6

    I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • 7

    For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

  • 8

    I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • 9

    Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

  • 10

    My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 11

    My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

  • 12

    They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • 13

    But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

  • 14

    Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

  • 15

    For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

  • 16

    For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

  • 17

    For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 18

    For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

  • 19

    But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

  • 20

    They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

  • 21

    Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

  • 22

    Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.