Psalms   

Psalms

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