Psalms Chapter 38

38 : 1 O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

38 : 2 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.

38 : 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

38 : 4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

38 : 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt 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 loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

38 : 8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

38 : 9 Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid 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 aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

38 : 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

38 : 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.

38 : 14 Thus I was as a man that 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 otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

38 : 17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

38 : 18 For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

38 : 19 But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

38 : 20 They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

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

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