a Ps 6:1
b Job 6:4
c Ps 32:4
d Is 1:6
e Ps 102:10
f Job 33:19; Ps 6:2; 31:10
g Ezra 9:6; Ps 40:12
i Ps 69:5
j Ps 35:14
k Job 30:28; Ps 42:9; 43:2
l Ps 102:3
m Ps 38:3
n Lam 1:13, 20f; 2:11; 5:17
q Job 3:24; Ps 22:1; 32:3
s Ps 10:17
u Ps 6:6; 102:5
v Ps 31:10
w Ps 6:7; 69:3; 88:9
aa Ps 31:11; 88:18
ab Luke 23:49
ac Ps 54:3
ad Ps 140:5
ae Ps 35:4
ag Ps 35:20
ah Ps 39:2, 9
ai Ps 39:7
ak Ps 17:6
al Ps 35:26
am Ps 35:15
an Ps 13:2
aq Ps 32:5
ar 2 Cor 7:9, 10
as Ps 18:17
au Ps 35:19
av Ps 35:12
aw Ps 109:5; 1 Jhn.3.12
ax Ps 22:19; 35:22
ay Ps 40:13, 17
az Ps 27:1

‏ Psalms 38

Prayer of a Suffering Penitent.

A Psalm of David, for a memorial.

1 O Lord, arebuke me not in Your wrath,
And chasten me not in Your burning anger.
 2For Your barrows have sunk deep into me,
And cYour hand has pressed down on me.
 3There is dno soundness in my flesh ebecause of Your indignation;
There is no health fin my bones because of my sin.
 4For my giniquities are gone over my head;
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
 5My ▼
▼ Or stripes
wounds grow foul and fester
Because of imy folly.
 6I am bent over and jgreatly bowed down;
I kgo mourning all day long.
 7For my loins are filled with lburning,
And there is mno soundness in my flesh.
 8I am nbenumbed and ▼
▼ Or greatly
badly crushed;
I ▼
▼ Lit roar
 , qgroan because of the ▼
▼ Lit growling
agitation of my heart.

 9Lord, all smy desire is ▼
▼ Or known to You
before You;
And my usighing is not hidden from You.
 10My heart throbs, vmy strength fails me;
And the wlight of my eyes, even ▼
▼ Lit they have
that ▼
▼ Lit is not with me
has gone from me.
 11My ▼
▼ Or lovers
 , aaloved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my kinsmen abstand afar off.
 12Those who acseek my life adlay snares for me;
And those who aeseek to injure me have ▼
▼ Lit spoken
threatened destruction,
And they agdevise treachery all day long.

 13But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a ahmute man who does not open his mouth.
 14Yes, I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth are no arguments.
 15For aiI ▼
▼ Or wait for
hope in You, O Lord;
You akwill answer, O Lord my God.
 16For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, alwould magnify themselves against me.”
 17For I am amready to fall,
And anmy ▼
▼ Lit pain
sorrow is continually before me.
 18For I ▼
▼ Or declare
 , aqconfess my iniquity;
I am full of aranxiety because of my sin.
 19But my asenemies are vigorous and ▼
▼ Or numerous
strong,
And many are those who auhate me wrongfully.
 20And those who avrepay evil for good,
They awoppose me, because I follow what is good.
 21Do not forsake me, O Lord;
O my God, axdo not be far from me!
 22Make ayhaste to help me,
O Lord, azmy salvation!
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