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