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!