Psalm 38 - Modern English Version

A Psalm of David. To bring remembrance.

¹ O  Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!

² For Your arrows pierce me, and Your hand presses down on me.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation, nor is there health in my bones because of my sin.

⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

⁵ My wounds grow foul and fester because of my foolishness.

⁶ I am bent down, I am bowed down greatly; I go around mourning all day long.

⁷ For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸ I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the disquietness of my heart.

⁹ O Lord, all my longing is before You, and my sighing is not hidden from You.

¹⁰ My heart throbs, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

¹¹ My friends and my companions stand aloof from my affliction, and relatives stand far off.

¹² Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my harm speak of destruction, and plan treachery all day long.

¹³ But I, like a deaf man, do not hear; I am like a mute who does not speak.

¹⁴ Thus I am like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth is no response.

¹⁵ For in You, O  Lord, do I hope; it is You, O Lord my God, who will answer.

¹⁶ For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me, lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me.”

¹⁷ For I am ready to fall, and my pain is continually before me.

¹⁸ I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.

¹⁹ But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong; and those who wrongfully hate me are many.

²⁰ Those who render evil for good attack me because I pursue good.

²¹ Do not forsake me, O  Lord; O my God, do not be far from me.

²² Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.