¹⁶ Turn to me, and have mercy on me,
    for I am desolate and afflicted.
¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are enlarged.
    Oh bring me out of my distresses.
¹⁸ Consider my affliction and my travail.
    Forgive all my sins.
¹⁹ Consider my enemies, for they are many.
    They hate me with cruel hatred.
²⁰ Oh keep my soul, and deliver me.
    Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.

38 Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,
    neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
² For your arrows have pierced me,
    your hand presses hard on me.
³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,
    neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head.
    As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt
    because of my foolishness.
⁶ I am in pain and bowed down greatly.
    I go mourning all day long.
⁷ For my waist is filled with burning.
    There is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸ I am faint and severely bruised.
    I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

138 I will give you thanks with my whole heart.
    Before the gods,^[a] I will sing praises to you.
² I will bow down toward your holy temple,
    and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth;
    for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
³ In the day that I called, you answered me.
    You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
⁴ All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh,
    for they have heard the words of your mouth.
⁵ Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh,
    for Yahweh’s glory is great!
⁶ For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly;
    but he knows the proud from afar.
⁷ Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me.
    You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies.
    Your right hand will save me.
⁸ Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me.
    Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever.
    Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.