Psalm 38

¹ O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath!

² For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your hand has come down on me.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
because of my sin.

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

⁵ My wounds stink and fester
because of my foolishness.

⁶ I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the day I go about mourning.

⁷ For my sides are filled with burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸ I am feeble and crushed;
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

⁹ O Lord, all my longing is before you;
my sighing is not hidden from you.

¹⁰ My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.

¹¹ My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
and my nearest kin stand far off.

¹² Those who seek my life lay their snares;
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin
and meditate treachery all day long.

¹³ But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

¹⁴ I have become like a man who does not hear,
and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

¹⁵ But for you, O LORD, do I wait;
it is you, O LORD my God, who will answer.

¹⁶ For I said, 'Only let them not rejoice over me,
who boast against me when my foot slips!'

¹⁷ For I am ready to fall,
and my pain is ever before me.

¹⁸ I confess my iniquity;
I am sorry for my sin.

¹⁹ But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,
and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

²⁰ Those who render me evil for good
accuse me because I follow after good.

²¹ Do not forsake me, O LORD!
O my God, be not far from me!

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