Psalm 38 ESV

Psalm 38

Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord

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

2 For your ²arrows have sunk into me, and your hand ³has come down on me.

3 There is ⁴no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my ⁵bones because of my sin.

4 For my ⁶iniquities 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 ⁷utterly bowed down and ⁸prostrate; all the day I ⁹go about mourning.

7 For my sides are filled with burning, and there is ¹⁰no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am feeble and crushed; I ¹¹groan because of the tumult of my heart.

9 O Lord, all my longing is before you; my ¹²sighing is not hidden from you.

10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and ¹³the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me.

11 My ¹⁴friends and companions ¹⁵stand aloof from my ¹⁶plague, and my nearest kin ¹⁷stand far off.

12 Those who seek my life ¹⁸lay their snares; those who seek my hurt ¹⁹speak of ruin and meditate ²⁰treachery all day long.

13 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like ²¹a 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 ²²rebukes.

15 But for ²³you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

16 For I said, "Only ²⁴let them not rejoice over me, who ²⁵boast against me when my ²⁶foot slips!"

17 For I am ²⁷ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.

18 I ²⁸confess my iniquity; I am ²⁹sorry for my sin.

19 But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me ³⁰wrongfully.

20 Those who ³¹render me evil for good ³²accuse me because I ³³follow after good.

21 Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not ³⁴far from me!

22 ³⁵Make haste to help me, O Lord, my ³⁶salvation!

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