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Psalm 38

1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
1LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
2For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
6I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
7For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
8I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
9O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
10My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
13But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
13But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
14I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
14Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
15For I hope in you, LORD. You will answer, Lord my God.
16For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
17For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
19Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
20Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
20They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
21Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
21Don’t forsake me, LORD. My God, don’t be far from me.
22Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
22Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.