Psm38:1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger, or discipline me in your wrath.
Psm38:2 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
Psm38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
Psm38:4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.
Psm38:5 My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness;
Psm38:6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all day long I go around mourning.
Psm38:7 For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Psm38:8 I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
Psm38:9 O Lord, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Psm38:10 My heart throbs, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes-- it also has gone from me.
Psm38:11 My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far off.
Psm38:12 Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin, and meditate treachery all day long.
Psm38:13 But I am like the deaf, I do not hear; like the mute, who cannot speak.
Psm38:14 Truly, I am like one who does not hear, and in whose mouth is no retort.
Psm38:15 But it is for you, O LORD, that I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
Psm38:16 For I pray, "Only do not let them rejoice over me, those who boast against me when my foot slips."
Psm38:17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
Psm38:18 I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
Psm38:19 Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
Psm38:20 Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good.
Psm38:21 Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, do not be far from me;
Psm38:22 make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
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