Psalms 38

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