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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.