Psalms 38
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Psalms 38:1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
Psalms 38:2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
Psalms 38:3 There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 38:4 For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
Psalms 38:5 My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
Psalms 38:6 I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
Psalms 38:7 For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
Psalms 38:8 I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
Psalms 38:9 O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
Psalms 38:10 My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
Psalms 38:11 My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
Psalms 38:12 Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
Psalms 38:13 But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
Psalms 38:14 I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
Psalms 38:15 I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
Psalms 38:16 For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
Psalms 38:17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
Psalms 38:18 Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
Psalms 38:19 Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
Psalms 38:20 Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
Psalms 38:21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
Psalms 38:22 Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.