38:1 | O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. |
38:2 | For your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down upon me. |
38:3 | Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin. |
38:4 | My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. |
38:5 | My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly. |
38:6 | I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning. |
38:7 | My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body. |
38:8 | I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart. |
38:9 | All my longings lie open before you, O Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you. |
38:10 | My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes. |
38:11 | My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away. |
38:12 | Those who seek my life set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they plot deception. |
38:13 | I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear, like a mute, who cannot open his mouth; |
38:14 | I have become like a man who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply. |
38:15 | I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God. |
38:16 | For I said, "Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips." |
38:17 | For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me. |
38:18 | I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin. |
38:19 | Many are those who are my vigorous enemies; those who hate me without reason are numerous. |
38:20 | Those who repay my good with evil slander me when I pursue what is good. |
38:21 | O LORD, do not forsake me; be not far from me, O my God. |
38:22 | Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior. |
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