^38:1 O Jehovah, rebuke me not in your wrath, nor discipline me in your hot displeasure. ^38:2 Because your arrows stick fast in me and your hand presses me severely. ^38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

    ^38:4 Because my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ^38:5 My wounds are loathsome and rot-away, because of my folly.

    ^38:6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. ^38:7 Because my loins are filled with burning and there is no soundness in my flesh.^38:8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the roaring of my heart.

    ^38:9 Lord, all my desire is before you and my groaning is not hid from you. ^38:10 My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

    ^38:11 Those I love and my friends stand apart from my plague and my kinsmen stand afar off. ^38:12Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and meditate deceits all the day long.

    ^38:13 But I do not hear like a deaf man. And I am as a mute man who does not open his mouth. ^38:14 Yes, I am as a man who hears not and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

    ^38:15 Because I hope in you, O Jehovah. You will answer, O Lord my God.

    ^38:16 Because I said, Lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.^38:17 Because I am ready to fall and my sorrow is continually before me. ^38:18 Because I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

    ^38:19 But my enemies are lively and are strong and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.^38:20 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the good thing.

    ^38:21 Do not forsake, O Jehovah. O my God, do not be far from me. ^38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.