LITV - Psalms - 38

38:1  A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, and do not chasten me in Your fury.

38:2  For Your arrows sink in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me.

38:3  There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your anger; nor peace in my bones because of my sin.

38:4  For my iniquities have passed over my head, as a heavy burden too heavy for me.

38:5  My wounds have putrefied and rotted, because of my foolishness.

38:6  I am bent down, I am bowed down exceedingly; I went mourning all the day long.

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

38:8  I am exceedingly benumbed and crushed. I howl from the groanings of my heart.

38:9  My Lord, all my desire is before You, and my sighing is not hidden from You.

38:10  My heart throbs; my power forsakes me! And the light of my eyes, they also are not with me.

38:11  My lovers and my friends stand apart from my stroke, and my neighbors have stood far off.

38:12  And those seeking my life lay a snare; yea, those seeking my evil speak ruin, and they utter deceits all the day long.

38:13  But like a deaf one I do not hear; and I am like a dumb one who does not open his mouth.

38:14  And I am as a man who is not hearing, and who has no rebukes in his mouth.

38:15  For I hope in You, O Jehovah; O Lord my God You will answer.

38:16  For I said, Lest they rejoice over me in the slipping of my foot; they exalt themselves over me.

38:17  For I am ready to fall and my pain is before me always.

38:18  For I will confess my perversity; I am anxious from my sin.

38:19  And my enemies are living; they are strong; and my haters multiply by falsehood.

38:20  And those who repay evil for good, they attack me, because the good follows me.

38:21  O Jehovah, do not forsake me! O my God, do not be far from me;

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