Psalms 38
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
1O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3<add>There is</add> no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither <add>is there any</add> rest in my bones because of my sin.
4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5My wounds stink <add>and</add> are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7For my loins are filled with a loathsome <add>disease:</add> and <add>there is</add> no soundness in my flesh.
8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9Lord, all my desire <add>is</add> before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12They also that seek after my life lay snares <add>for me:</add> and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
13But I, as a deaf <add>man</add>, heard not; and <add>I was</add> as a dumb man <add>that</add> openeth not his mouth.
14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth <add>are</add> no reproofs.
15For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16For I said, <add>Hear me</add>, lest <add>otherwise</add> they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify <add>themselves</add> against me.
17For I <add>am</add> ready to halt, and my sorrow <add>is</add> continually before me.
18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19But mine enemies <add>are</add> lively, <add>and</add> they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow <add>the thing that</add> good <add>is</add>.
21Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.