Psalm 38
O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger
: nor chasten me in your fierce displeasure.
For your arrows have been aimed against me
: and your hand has come down heavy upon me.
There is no health in my flesh because of your indignation
: nor soundness in my bones, by reason of my sin.
The tide of my iniquities has gone over my head
: their weight is a burden too heavy for me to bear.
My wounds stink and fester
: because of my foolishness.
I am bowed down and brought so low
: that I go mourning all the day long.
For my loins are filled with a burning pain
: and there is no sound part in all my body.
I am numbed and stricken to the ground
: I cry aloud in the yearning of my heart.
O Lord, all I long for is before you
: and my deep sighing is not hidden from you.
My heart is in tumult, my strength fails me
: and even the light of my eyes has gone from me.
My friends and my companions hold aloof from my affliction
: and my kinsmen stand far off.
Those who seek my life strike at me
: and those that desire my hurt spread evil tales,
and murmur slanders all the day.
But I am like a deaf man and hear nothing
: like one that is dumb, who does not open his mouth.
So I have become as one who cannot hear
: in whose mouth there is no retort.
For in you, Lord, have I put my trust
: and you will answer me, O Lord my God.
For I prayed ‘Let them never exult over me
: those who turn arrogant when my foot slips.’
Truly, I am ready to fall
: and my pain is with me continually.
But I acknowledge my wickedness
: and I am filled with sorrow at my sin.
Those that are my enemies without cause are great in number
: and those who hate me wrongfully are many.
Those also who repay evil for good are against me
: because I seek after good.
Forsake me not, O Lord, go not far from me, my God
: hasten to my help, O Lord my salvation.