MKJV - Psalms - 38

38:1  A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath; neither chasten me in Your fury.

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

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

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

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

38:6  I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go 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 feeble and painfully broken; I have roared because of 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 pants; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

38:11  My lovers and my friends stand apart from my plague; and my neighbors stand far off.

38:12  And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and 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 opens not his mouth.

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

38:15  For in You, O LORD, do I hope; You will hear, O LORD my God.

38:16  For I said, Hear me, lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

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

38:18  For I will declare my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin.

38:19  And my enemies are lively; they are strong; and my haters increase by deception.

38:20  And those who give evil for good oppose me, because I follow good.

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

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