# Psalm 38 [[Ps-37|← Psalm 37]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-39|Psalm 39 →]] *** ###### v1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. ###### v2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. ###### v3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. ###### v4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. ###### v5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness. ###### v6 I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. ###### v7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. ###### v8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart. ###### v9 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you. ###### v10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me. ###### v11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. ###### v12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long. ###### v13 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth. ###### v14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs. ###### v15 For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God. ###### v16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips." ###### v17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me. ###### v18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. ###### v19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous. ###### v20 They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good. ###### v21 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me. ###### v22 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. *** [[Ps-37|← Psalm 37]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-39|Psalm 39 →]]