ACV - Psalms - 38

38:1  O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

38:2  For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely.

38:3  There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

38:4  For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

38:5  My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

38:6  I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long.

38:7  For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

38:8  I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.

38:9  Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.

38:10  My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

38:11  Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

38:12  Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

38:13  But I, as a deaf man, hear not. And I am as a mute man who opens not his mouth.

38:14  Yea, I am as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

38:15  For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope. Thou will answer, O Lord my God.

38:16  For I said, Lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

38:17  For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

38:18  For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

38:19  But my enemies are energetic, and are strong, and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

38:20  They also who render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good.

38:21  Forsake me not, O Jehovah. O my God, be not far from me.

38:22  Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.