Psalm 38 | Liturgical Calendar

1

Rebuke me not, O Lord, in your anger, *

neither chasten me in your weighty displeasure.

2

For your arrows stick fast in me, *

and your hand presses me hard.

3

There is no health in my flesh, because of your displeasure; *

neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin.

4

For my iniquities have gone over my head *

and are like a heavy burden, too much for me to bear.

5

My wounds stink and fester *

by reason of my foolishness.

6

I am brought into such great trouble and misery *

that I go about mourning all the day long.

7

For my loins are filled with burning, *

and there is no wholeness in my body.

8

I am feeble and sorely smitten; *

I have roared because of the tumult of my heart.

9

Lord, you know all my desire, *

and my groaning is not hidden from you.

10

My heart is panting, my strength has failed me, *

and the sight of my eyes is gone from me.

11

My friends and my neighbors turn away from my trouble, *

and my kinsmen stand afar off.

12

Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me, *

and those who go about to do me evil talk of wickedness and imagine deceit all the day long.

13

As for me, I am like the deaf who do not hear, *

and as one who is mute, who does not open his mouth.

14

I have become like a man who hears not, *

and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

15

For in you, O Lord, have I put my trust; *

you shall answer for me, O Lord my God.

16

I have said, “Let not my enemies triumph over me,” *

for when my foot slipped, they rejoiced greatly over me.

17

Truly, I am about to fall, *

and my pain is ever with me.

18

For I will confess my wickedness, *

and be sorry for my sin.

19

But my enemies live, and are mighty, *

and those who hate me wrongfully are many in number.

20

Those also who repay evil for good are against me, *

because I follow that which is good.

21

Forsake me not, O Lord my God; *

O be not far from me.

22

Make haste to help me, *

O Lord God of my salvation.