Psalm 38  Jubilee Bible 2000

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

¹ ¶ O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

⁴ For my iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

⁵ My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

⁶ I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

⁷ For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸ I am feeble and sore broken; I roar by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

⁹ Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.

¹⁰ My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

¹¹ My friends and my companions stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹² ¶ Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.

¹³ But I, as a deaf man heard not, and was as a dumb man that did not open his mouth.

¹⁴ Thus I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁵ For thee, O LORD, do I wait; thou wilt respond, O Lord my God.

¹⁶ For I said, Let them not rejoice over me; let them not magnify themselves against me when my foot slips.

¹⁷ For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

¹⁸ Therefore I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

¹⁹ For my enemies are alive, and they are strong, and those that hate me wrongfully are multiplied;

²⁰ rendering evil for good they are against me because I follow that which is good.

²¹ Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.

²² Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.