Psalms 38

1 O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

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

2For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

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

3My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

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

4For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

5My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.

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

6I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

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

7For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

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

8I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

9Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

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

10My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

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 keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

12Those who have a desire to take my life put nets for me; those who are designing my destruction say evil things against me, all the day their minds are full of deceit.

12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

13But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.

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

14So I was like a man whose ears are shut, and in whose mouth there are no sharp words.

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

15In you, O Lord, is my hope: you will give me an answer, O Lord, my God.

15For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

16I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

17My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

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

18I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

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

19But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

19But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

20They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.

20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

21Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.

21Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.

22Come quickly to give me help, O Lord, my salvation.

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