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38:1  A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!
38:2  For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come 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 gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
38:5  My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
38:6  I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
38:7  For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
38:8  I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
38:9  O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
38:10  My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
38:11  My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
38:12  Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
38:13  But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
38:14  I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
38:15  But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
38:16  For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!”
38:17  For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.
38:18  I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
38:19  But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
38:20  Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.
38:21  Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me!
38:22  Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!