| 38.1 |
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. |
| 38.2 |
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. |
| 38.3 |
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. |
| 38.4 |
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. |
| 38.5 |
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. |
| 38.6 |
I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. |
| 38.7 |
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. |
| 38.8 |
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart. |
| 38.9 |
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you. |
| 38.10 |
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me. |
| 38.11 |
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. |
| 38.12 |
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long. |
| 38.13 |
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth. |
| 38.14 |
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs. |
| 38.15 |
For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God. |
| 38.16 |
For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.” |
| 38.17 |
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me. |
| 38.18 |
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. |
| 38.19 |
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous. |
| 38.20 |
They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good. |
| 38.21 |
Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me. |
| 38.22 |
Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. |
