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38:1  A Psalm of David. To bring remembrance. O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.
38:2  For Your arrows pierce me, and Your hand presses down on me.
38:3  There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation, nor is there health in my bones because of my sin.
38:4  For my iniquities have passed over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
38:5  My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness.
38:6  I am bent, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
38:7  For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
38:8  I am numb and completely crushed; I have roared because of the groaning of my heart.
38:9  Lord, all my desire is before You, and my sighing is not hidden from You.
38:10  My heart throbs, 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 back because of my affliction, and those close to me stand at a distance.
38:12  The people who seek my life strike at me; those who seek my harm speak destruction, and plan treacheries all the day long.
38:13  But I, like a deaf man, did not hear; and like a dumb man, did not open my mouth.
38:14  Thus I was as a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
38:15  For in You, O Lord, do I hope; You will answer, O Lord my God.
38:16  For I said, “Lest otherwise they should rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.”
38:17  For I am ready to stumble, and my pain is continually before me.
38:18  For I will declare my iniquity; I am anxious because of my sin.
38:19  But my enemies are lively, and they are strong; and those who wrongfully hate me are many.
38:20  Those also who repay evil for good are my adversaries, because I pursue good.
38:21  Do not abandon me, O Lord; O my God, do not be far from me.
38:22  Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.