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Psalms 38
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,
A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
For your arrows have pierced me,
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,
There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
For my iniquities have gone over my head.
For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt
My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
I am in pain and bowed down greatly.
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
For my waist is filled with burning.
For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
Lord, all my desire is before you.
O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.
My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
They also who seek after my life lay snares.
Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear.
But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear,
I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me,
For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
But my enemies are vigorous and many.
Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason (note: See John 15:25).
They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me,
Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.