Psalm 38

26 Psalms 38
¹Yahvah, do not rebuke me in your wrath; nor chasten me in the heat of your anger.
²For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand rests heavily on me.

³There is no peace in my flesh because of your anger; nor is there any rest in my bones because of my sins.
⁴For my iniquities are gone over my head; as a great burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
⁶I am greatly troubled; all day long I walk sadly.
⁷My loins are filled with trembling, and there is no peace in my body.
⁸I am feeble and miserable; I have groaned because of the despair of my heart.

⁹Master, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you.
¹⁰My heart is broken, my strength has failed me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
¹¹My neighbors and my friends stood aside from my grief; and my kinsmen stood off.

¹²Those who seek after my life and wish me evil also lay hold of me and speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long.

¹³But I, as a deaf man, did not hear; and I was as a mute man that does not open his mouth.
¹⁴Thus, I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth is no reproof.

¹⁵For in you, Yahvah, I hope; you will answer me, Master my God.
¹⁶Because I said, Hear me, lest they rejoice over me; they scoff at me when my feet waver.

¹⁷I am prepared to suffer, and my sorrow is continually with me.
¹⁸I will declare my iniquity to you; I will purify myself of my sins.
¹⁹But my enemies are strong and alert; and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
²⁰They reward me evil for good; they disgrace me because I seek after good things.

²¹Do not forsake me, Yahvah; my God, do not be far from me.
²²Stay and help me, Master save me.