Tehillim 38

²Hashem , rebuke me not in Thy wrath;

neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure.

³For Thine khitzim (arrows) pierce me,

and Thy Yad presseth upon me.

⁴There is no health in my basar

because of Thine anger;

neither is there any shalom in my atzmot

because of my chattat.

⁵For mine avonot (iniquities) are gone over mine head;

as a weighty massa (burden) they are too heavy for me.

⁶My chaburot (wounds) are foul and festering

because of my wicked folly.

⁷I am bent down;

I am brought low ad me'od; I go about mourning all day long.

⁸For my loins are filled with burning;

and there is no health in my basar.

⁹I am feeble and broken ad me'od;

I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my lev.

¹⁰Adonoi, all my ta'avah (desire, longing) is before Thee;

and my groaning is not hid from Thee.

¹¹My lev panteth,

my ko'ach faileth me;

as for the ohr of mine eyes,

it also is gone from me.

¹²My loved ones and my re'a

stand aloof from my nega;

and my neighbors stand afar off.

¹³They also that seek after my nefesh lay snares for me;

and they that seek my hurt speak of ruin,

and plot mirmot (deceptions, deceits) all the day long.

¹⁴But I, like a cheresh (deaf man) , heard not;

and I was like a mute that openeth not his mouth.

¹⁵Thus I was like an ish that heareth not,

and in whose mouth are no tokhachot (reproofs) .

¹⁶For I wait for Thee, Hashem ;

Thou wilt hear, Adonoi Elohai.

¹⁷For I said,

Hear me, lest otherwise they should gloat over me;

when my regel slippeth,

they magnify themselves against me.

¹⁸For I am ready to fall,

and my sorrow is before me tamid.

¹⁹For I will declare mine avon;

I will be in anguish over my chattat.

²⁰But mine oveyim are chayyim (vigorous) , and they are strong;

and they that hate me sheker (wrongfully) are multiplied.

²¹They also that repay ra'ah for tovah are mine adversaries;

because I pursue the thing that is tov.

²²Forsake me not, Hashem Elohai;

be not far from me.

²³Make haste to help me,

Adonoi Teshuati (L-rd of my salvation) .