Psalm 38:1WEB
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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A Psalm by David, for a memorial.
Psalm 38:1WEB
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 38:2WEB
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
Psalm 38:3WEB
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 38:4WEB
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
Psalm 38:5WEB
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psalm 38:6WEB
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psalm 38:7WEB
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalm 38:8WEB
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
Psalm 38:9WEB
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
Psalm 38:10WEB
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
Psalm 38:11WEB
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
Psalm 38:12WEB
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
Psalm 38:13WEB
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
Psalm 38:14WEB
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Psalm 38:15WEB
For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 38:16WEB
For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
Psalm 38:17WEB
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
Psalm 38:18WEB
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalm 38:19WEB
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Psalm 38:20WEB
They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
Psalm 38:21WEB
Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 38:22WEB
Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.