| 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 loins are 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. |
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