Psalms 38

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 A psalm of David. For remembrance.	1 [Psalm Of David In commemoration] Yahweh, do not correct me in anger, do not discipline me inwrath.
2 LORD, punish me no more in your anger; in your wrath do not chastise me!	2 For your arrows have pierced deep into me, your hand has pressed down upon me.
3 Your arrows have sunk deep in me; your hand has come down upon me.	3 Your indignation has left no part of me unscathed, my sin has left no health in my bones.
4 My flesh is afflicted because of your anger; my frame aches because of my sin.	4 My sins stand higher than my head, they weigh on me as an unbearable weight.
5 My iniquities overwhelm me, a burden beyond my strength.	5 I have stinking, festering wounds, thanks to my fol y.
6 Foul and festering are my sores because of my folly.	6 I am twisted and bent double, I spend my days in gloom.
7 I am stooped and deeply bowed; all day I go about mourning.	7 My loins burn with fever, no part of me is unscathed.
8 My loins burn with fever; my flesh is afflicted.	8 Numbed and utterly crushed I groan in distress of heart.
9 I am numb and utterly crushed; I wail with anguish of heart.	9 Lord, all my longing is known to you, my sighing no secret from you,
10 My Lord, my deepest yearning is before you; my groaning is not hidden from you.	10 my heart is throbbing, my strength has failed, the light has gone out of my eyes.
11 My heart shudders, my strength forsakes me; the very light of my eyes has failed.	11 Friends and companions shun my disease, even the dearest of them keep their distance.
12 Friends and companions shun my pain; my neighbors stand far off.	12 Those with designs on my life lay snares, those who wish me ill speak of violence and hatchtreachery all day long.
13 Those who seek my life lay snares for me; they seek my misfortune, they speak of ruin; they plot treachery all the day.	13 But I hear nothing, as though I were deaf, as though dumb, saying not a word.
14 But I am like the deaf, hearing nothing, like the dumb, saying nothing,	14 I am like the one who, hearing nothing, has no sharp answer to make.
15 Like someone who does not hear, who has no answer ready.	15 For in you, Yahweh, I put my hope, you, Lord my God, wil give answer.
16 LORD, I wait for you; O Lord, my God, answer 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 fear they will gloat, exult over me if I stumble.	17 There is no escape for me from fal ing, no relief from my misery.
18 I am very near to falling; my pain is with me always.	18 But I make no secret of my guilt, I am anxious at the thought of my sin.
19 I acknowledge my guilt and grieve over my sin.	19 There is no numbering those who oppose me without cause, no counting those who hate meunprovoked,
20 But many are my foes without cause, a multitude of enemies without reason,	20 repaying me evil for good, slandering me for trying to do them good.
21 Repaying me evil for good, harassing me for pursuing good.	21 Yahweh, do not desert me, my God, do not stand aloof from me.
22 Forsake me not, O LORD; my God, be not far from me!	22 Come quickly to my help, Lord, my Saviour!
23 Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my salvation!