Psalm 38:1-Psalm 39:1 - Prayer Of A Suffering Sinner

¹ O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath. ² For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly. All the day I go about mourning. ⁷ For my loins are full [of] burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart.

⁹ O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you. ¹⁰ My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me. ¹¹ My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off. ¹² Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.

¹³ But as for me, like [the] deaf I cannot hear, and [I am] like [the] mute [who] cannot open his mouth. ¹⁴ And [so] I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts. ¹⁵ Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh. You will answer, O Lord my God. ¹⁶ For I said, "[Help,] lest they rejoice over me, [lest] they boast against me when my foot slips." ¹⁷ For I [am] ready to stumble, and my pain [is] before me continually. ¹⁸ For my iniquity I confess; I am anxious because of my sin. ¹⁹ And my enemies without cause are numerous, and those who hate me wrongfully are many. ²⁰ And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good.

²¹ Do not forsake me, O Yahweh. O my God, do not be far from me. ²² Hurry to help me, O Lord, my salvation.

¹ I said, "I will guard my ways {that I may not sin} with my tongue. I will keep a muzzle over my mouth as long as [the] wicked [are] before me."