Psalms 38

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David.	1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 I said, “I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue.” I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me.	2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3 I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.	3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up.	4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 I spoke with my tongue, “O Lord, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me.”	5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man.	6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7 So then, truly man passes by like an image; even so, he is disquieted in vain. He stores up, and he knows not for whom he will gather these things.	7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 And now, what is it that awaits me? Is it not the Lord? And my substance is with you.	8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9 Rescue me from all my iniquities. You have handed me over as reproach to the foolish.	9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10 I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.	10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 Remove your scourges from me.	11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 I fall short at corrections from the strength of your hand. For you have chastised man for iniquity. And you have made his soul shrink away like a spider. Nevertheless, it is in vain that any man be disquieted.	12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
13 O Lord, heed my prayer and my supplication. Pay attention to my tears. Do not be silent. For I am a newcomer with you, and a sojourner, just as all my fathers were.	13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
14 Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more.	14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
	15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
	16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
	17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
	18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
	19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
	20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
	21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
	22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.