38:1  O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath,
Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!

38:2  For Your arrows pierce me deeply,
And Your hand presses me down.

38:3  There is no soundness in my flesh
Because of Your anger,
Nor any health in my bones
Because of my sin.

38:4  For my iniquities have gone over my head;
Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

38:5  My wounds are foul and festering
Because of my foolishness.

38:6  I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.

38:7  For my loins are full of inflammation,
And there is no soundness in my flesh.

38:8  I am feeble and severely broken;
I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

38:9  Lord, all my desire is before You;
And my sighing is not hidden from You.

38:10  My heart pants, my strength fails me;
As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

38:11  My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague,
And my relatives stand afar off.

38:12  Those also who seek my life lay snares for me;
Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction,
And plan deception all the day long.

38:13  But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a mute who does not open his mouth.

38:14  Thus I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth is no response.

38:15  For in You, O LORD, I hope;
You will hear, O Lord my God.

38:16  For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me,
Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me.”

38:17  For I am ready to fall,
And my sorrow is continually before me.

38:18  For I will declare my iniquity;
I will be in anguish over my sin.

38:19  But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong;
And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.

38:20  Those also who render evil for good,
They are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.

38:21  Do not forsake me, O LORD;
O my God, be not far from me!

38:22  Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!