Psalms 38

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.	1 [Psalm Of David In commemoration] Yahweh, do not correct me in anger, do not discipline me inwrath.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.	2 For your arrows have pierced deep into me, your hand has pressed down upon 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 indignation has left no part of me unscathed, my sin has left no health in my bones.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.	4 My sins stand higher than my head, they weigh on me as an unbearable weight.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.	5 I have stinking, festering wounds, thanks to my fol y.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.	6 I am twisted and bent double, I spend my days in gloom.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.	7 My loins burn with fever, no part of me is unscathed.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.	8 Numbed and utterly crushed I groan in distress of heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.	9 Lord, all my longing is known to you, my sighing no secret from you,
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.	10 my heart is throbbing, my strength has failed, the light has gone out of my eyes.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.	11 Friends and companions shun my disease, even the dearest of them keep their distance.
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 Those with designs on my life lay snares, those who wish me ill speak of violence and hatchtreachery all day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.	13 But I hear nothing, as though I were deaf, as though dumb, saying not a word.
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.	14 I am like the one who, hearing nothing, has no sharp answer to make.
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.	15 For in you, Yahweh, I put my hope, you, Lord my God, wil give answer.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.	16 I said, 'Never let them gloat over me, do not let them take advantage of me if my foot slips.'
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.	17 There is no escape for me from fal ing, no relief from my misery.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.	18 But I make no secret of my guilt, I am anxious at the thought of my sin.
19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.	19 There is no numbering those who oppose me without cause, no counting those who hate meunprovoked,
20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.	20 repaying me evil for good, slandering me for trying to do them good.
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.	21 Yahweh, do not desert me, my God, do not stand aloof from me.
22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.	22 Come quickly to my help, Lord, my Saviour!