en_cjb - Psa 38 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ [(0)] A psalm of David, serving as a reminder:

² [(1)] ADONAI, don’t rebuke me when you are angry or discipline me when you are enraged,

³ [(2)] for your arrows penetrate me deeply, and your hand is pressing me down.

⁴ [(3)] Your indignation left no part of me intact; my sin made my whole body sick;

⁵ [(4)] for my iniquities loom high over my head as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.

⁶ [(5)] I have stinking, festering wounds because of my foolishness.

⁷ [(6)] I am bent down, prostrate completely; I go about mourning all day long.

⁸ [(7)] For my insides burn with fever, and my whole body is sick.

⁹ [(8)] I am numb, completely crushed; my anguished heart makes me groan aloud.

¹⁰ [(9)] Adonai, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.

¹¹ [(10)] My heart is throbbing, my strength is gone, and the light in my eyes has left me.

¹² [(11)] My friends and companions shun my disease; even the closest keep their distance.

¹³ [(12)] Those seeking my life lay snares for me, those seeking to harm me speak of disaster and think up deceptions all day long.

¹⁴ [(13)] But I’m like a deaf man — I don’t hear it; and, like a mute, I don’t say a word.

¹⁵ [(14)] Yes, I’ve become like a man who doesn’t hear and in whose mouth are no defenses.

¹⁶ [(15)] For it is in you, ADONAI, that I hope. You will answer, Adonai my God.

¹⁷ [(16)] I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me or boast against me when my foot slips.”

¹⁸ [(17)] For I am about to fall, and my pain is always with me.

¹⁹ [(18)] I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin.

²⁰ [(19)] But my enemies are alive and well, those who wrongfully hate me increase their numbers;

²¹ [(20)] and, since they repay good with evil, they oppose me because I pursue good.

²² [(21)] Don’t abandon me, ADONAI! My God, don’t be far from me!

²³ [(22)] Come quickly to help me, Adonai, my salvation!