Of David.
[38:1] O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!
[38:2] For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
[38:3] There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
[38:4] For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
[38:5] My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,
[38:6] I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
[38:7] For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
[38:8] I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
[38:9] O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.
[38:10] My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
[38:11] My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
[38:12] Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
[38:13] But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
[38:14] I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
[38:15] But for you, O Lord, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
[38:16] For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!”
[38:17] For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.
[38:18] I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
[38:19] But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
[38:20] Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.
[38:21] Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me!
[38:22] Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!