AB - Psalms - 38

38:1  O Lord, rebuke me not in Your wrath, neither chasten me in Your anger.

38:2  For Your weapons are fixed in me, and You have pressed Your hand heavily upon me.

38:3  For there is no health in my flesh because of Your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.

38:4  For my transgressions have gone over my head; they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

38:5  My wounds have become foul and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

38:6  I have been wretched and bowed down continually; I went with a mourning countenance all the day.

38:7  For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.

38:8  I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly; I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

38:9  But all my desire is before You; and my groaning is not hidden from You.

38:10  My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of my eyes is not with me.

38:11  My friends and my neighbors drew near before me, and stood sill; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.

38:12  While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul; and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.

38:13  But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth.

38:14  And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.

38:15  For I hoped in You, O Lord; You will hear, O Lord my God.

38:16  For I said, Lest my enemies rejoice against me; for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastfully against me.

38:17  For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.

38:18  For I will declare my iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.

38:19  But my enemies live, and are mightier than I; and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied.

38:20  They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness.

38:21  Forsake me not, O Lord my God; depart not from me.

38:22  Draw near to my help, O Lord of my salvation.