Psalm 38, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION
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1

O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
 

2

For your arrows have pierced me,
and your hand has come down upon me.
 

3

Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;
my bones have no soundness because of my sin.
 

4

My guilt has overwhelmed me
like a burden too heavy to bear.
 

5

My wounds fester and are loathsome
because of my sinful folly.
 

6

I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning.
 

7

My back is filled with searing pain;
there is no health in my body.
 

8

I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart.
 

9

All my longings lie open before you, O Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
 

10

My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
even the light has gone from my eyes.
 

11

My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;
my neighbours stay far away.
 

12

Those who seek my life set their traps,
those who would harm me talk of my ruin;
all day long they plot deception.
 

13

I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear,
like a mute, who cannot open his mouth;
 

14

I have become like a man who does not hear,
whose mouth can offer no reply.
 

15

I wait for you, O LORD;
you will answer, O Lord my God.
 

16

For I said, “Do not let them gloat
or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
 

17

For I am about to fall,
and my pain is ever with me.
 

18

I confess my iniquity;
I am troubled by my sin.
 

19

Many are those who are my vigorous enemies;
those who hate me without reason are numerous.
 

20

Those who repay my good with evil
slander me when I pursue what is good.
 

21

O LORD, do not forsake me;
be not far from me, O my God.
 

22

Come quickly to help me,
O Lord my Saviour.