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