Psalms 38

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.	1 A psalm of David. For remembrance.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.	2 LORD, punish me no more in your anger; in your wrath do not chastise me!
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.	3 Your arrows have sunk deep in me; your hand has come down upon me.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.	4 My flesh is afflicted because of your anger; my frame aches because of my sin.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.	5 My iniquities overwhelm me, a burden beyond my strength.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.	6 Foul and festering are my sores because of my folly.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.	7 I am stooped and deeply bowed; all day I go about mourning.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.	8 My loins burn with fever; my flesh is afflicted.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.	9 I am numb and utterly crushed; I wail with anguish of heart.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.	10 My Lord, my deepest yearning is before you; my groaning is not hidden from you.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.	11 My heart shudders, my strength forsakes me; the very light of my eyes has failed.
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.	12 Friends and companions shun my pain; my neighbors stand far off.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.	13 Those who seek my life lay snares for me; they seek my misfortune, they speak of ruin; they plot treachery all the day.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.	14 But I am like the deaf, hearing nothing, like the dumb, saying nothing,
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.	15 Like someone who does not hear, who has no answer ready.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.	16 LORD, I wait for you; O Lord, my God, answer me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.	17 For I fear they will gloat, exult over me if I stumble.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.	18 I am very near to falling; my pain is with me always.
19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.	19 I acknowledge my guilt and grieve over my sin.
20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.	20 But many are my foes without cause, a multitude of enemies without reason,
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.	21 Repaying me evil for good, harassing me for pursuing good.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.	22 Forsake me not, O LORD; my God, be not far from me!
	23 Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my salvation!