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38:1  A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
38:2  For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore.
38:3  There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
38:4  For my iniquities are gone over my head; as a 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 roar by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
38:9  Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee.
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 friends and my companions stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
38:12  Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long.
38:13  But I, as a deaf man heard not, and was as a dumb man that did not open his mouth.
38:14  Thus I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
38:15  For thee, O LORD, do I wait; thou wilt respond, O Lord my God.
38:16  For I said, Let them not rejoice over me; let them not magnify themselves against me when my foot slips.
38:17  For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
38:18  Therefore I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
38:19  For my enemies are alive, and they are strong, and those that hate me wrongfully are multiplied;
38:20  rendering evil for good they are against me because I follow that which is good.
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.