Psalm 38

Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord

1O Lord , rebuke me not in your anger,[#Ps. 6:1]

nor discipline me in your wrath!

2For your arrows have sunk into me,[#Job 6:4]

and your hand has come down on me.

3There is no soundness in my flesh[#Isa. 1:6]

because of your indignation;

there is no health in my bones

because of my sin.

4For my iniquities have gone over my head;[#Ps. 40:12; Ezra 9:6]

like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

5My wounds stink and fester

because of my foolishness,

6I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;[#Ps. 35:14; 42:5, 6, 11; 43:5; #Isa. 21:3]

all the day I go about mourning.

7For my sides are filled with burning,

and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8I am feeble and crushed;

I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

9O Lord, all my longing is before you;

my sighing is not hidden from you.

10My heart throbs; my strength fails me,

and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.

11My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,[#Ps. 88:18; Job 19:13-20; #Luke 10:31, 32; #Ps. 39:10; Isa. 53:4, 8]

and my nearest kin stand far off.

12Those who seek my life lay their snares;[#Matt. 22:15]

those who seek my hurt speak of ruin

and meditate treachery all day long.

13But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,

like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

14I have become like a man who does not hear,

and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

15But for you, O Lord , do I wait;[#Ps. 39:7; 2 Sam. 16:12]

it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

16For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me,[#Ps. 13:4]

who boast against me when my foot slips!”

17For I am ready to fall,[#Ps. 35:15; Jer. 20:10]

and my pain is ever before me.

18I confess my iniquity;[#Ps. 32:5]

I am sorry for my sin.

19But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,

and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

20Those who render me evil for good[#Ps. 35:12]

accuse me because I follow after good.

21Do not forsake me, O Lord !

O my God, be not far from me!

22Make haste to help me,[#Ps. 40:13]

O Lord, my salvation!

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