Psalms 38

¹O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath;

²For thine arrows stick fast in me,

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation;

⁴For mine iniquities are gone over my head:

⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt,

⁶I am pained and bowed down greatly;

⁷For my loins are filled with burning;

⁸I am faint and sore bruised:

⁹Lord, all my desire is before thee;

¹⁰My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me:

¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague;

¹²They also that seek after my life lay snares for me;

¹³But I, as a deaf man, hear not;

¹⁴Yea, I am as a man that heareth not,

¹⁵For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope:

¹⁶For I said, Lest they rejoice over me:

¹⁷For I am ready to fall,

¹⁸For I will declare mine iniquity;

¹⁹But mine enemies are lively, and are strong;

²⁰They also that render evil for good

²¹Forsake me not, O Jehovah:

²²Make haste to help me,