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38:1  A psalm of David. To bring to remembrance. O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath.
38:2  For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.
38:3  There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
38:4  For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
38:5  My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.
38:6  I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly. All the day I go about mourning.
38:7  For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
38:8  I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart.
38:9  O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.
38:10  My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
38:11  My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off.
38:12  Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
38:13  But as for me, like the deaf I cannot hear, and I am like the mute who cannot open his mouth.
38:14  And so I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts.
38:15  Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh. You will answer, O Lord my God.
38:16  For I said, “Help, lest they rejoice over me, lest they boast against me when my foot slips.”
38:17  For I am ready to stumble, and my pain is before me continually.
38:18  For my iniquity I confess; I am anxious because of my sin.
38:19  And my enemies without cause are numerous, and those who hate me wrongfully are many.
38:20  And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good.
38:21  Do not forsake me, O Yahweh. O my God, do not be far from me.
38:22  Hurry to help me, O Lord, my salvation.