Psalms 38
World English Bible
1 LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2 For your arrows have pierced me,
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head.
5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt
6 I am in pain and bowed down greatly.
7 For my waist is filled with burning.
8 I am faint and severely bruised.
9 Lord, all my desire is before you.
10 My heart throbs.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.
12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things,
13 But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear.
14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear,
15 For I hope in you, LORD.
16 For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me,
17 For I am ready to fall.
18 For I will declare my iniquity.
19 But my enemies are vigorous and many.
20 They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
21 Don’t forsake me, LORD.
22 Hurry to help me,
