Chapter 38

  A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.  

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  For thy arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand falleth heavy upon me.  

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  There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.  

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  For my iniquities have gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.  

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  My wounds are offensive, and are corrupt because of my foolishness.  

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  I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.  

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  For my loins are filled with a lothsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.  

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  I am feeble and grievously broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.  

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  Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.  

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  My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me.  

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  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my affliction; and my kinsmen stand afar off.  

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  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.  

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  But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.  

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  Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.  

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  For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.  

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  For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.  

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  For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.  

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  For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.  

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  But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.  

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  They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.  

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  Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.  

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  Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.  

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