• Psalm 38In Hebrew texts 38:1-22 is numbered 38:2-23.

  • 1 Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
  • 2 Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.
  • 3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
  • 4 My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
  • 5 My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
  • 6 I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
  • 7 My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
  • 8 I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
  • 9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
  • 10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
  • 11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.
  • 12 Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.
  • 13 I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;
  • 14 I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
  • 15 Lord, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.
  • 16 For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”
  • 17 For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
  • 18 I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
  • 19 Many have become my enemies without cause; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
  • 20 Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.
  • 21 Lord, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.
  • 22 Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.