PS-38:1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD,

rebuke me not in

thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

PS-38:2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth

me sore.

PS-38:3 [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine

anger; neither

[is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.

PS-38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy

burden they

are too heavy for me.

PS-38:5 My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my

foolishness.

PS-38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning

all the day

long.

PS-38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and

[there is] no

soundness in my flesh.

PS-38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of

the

disquietness of my heart.

PS-38:9 Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is

not hid from

thee.

PS-38:10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the

light of mine

eyes, it also is gone from me.

PS-38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and

my kinsmen

stand afar off.

PS-38:12 They 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.

PS-38:13 But I, as a deaf [man], heard not; and [I was] as a

dumb man [that]

openeth not his mouth.

PS-38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose

mouth [are] no

reproofs.

PS-38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord

my God.

PS-38:16 For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should

rejoice over me:

when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.

PS-38:17 For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is]

continually before me.

PS-38:18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for

my sin.

PS-38:19 But mine enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong:

and they that

hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

PS-38:20 They also that render evil for good are mine

adversaries; because I

follow [the thing that] good [is].

PS-38:21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

38:22 Make

haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

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