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To bring to remembrance.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Ps-38-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, do not rebuke me in Your wrath,</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-1">Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For Your arrows pierce me deeply,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-2">And Your hand presses me down.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><i>There is</i> no soundness in my flesh</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-3">Because of Your anger,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-3">Nor <i>any</i> health in my bones</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-3">Because of my sin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For my iniquities have gone over my head;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-4">Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My wounds are foul <i>and</i> festering</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-5">Because of my foolishness.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I am <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>troubled, I am bowed down greatly;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-6">I go mourning all the day long.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For my loins are full of inflammation,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-7">And <i>there is</i> no soundness in my flesh.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I am feeble and severely broken;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-8">I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Lord, all my desire <i>is</i> before You;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-9">And my sighing is not hidden from You.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My heart pants, my strength fails me;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-10">As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-11">And my relatives stand afar off.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Those also who seek my life lay snares <i>for me;</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-12">Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-12">And plan deception all the day long.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But I, like a deaf <i>man,</i> do not hear;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-13">And <i>I am</i> like a mute <i>who</i> does not open his mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thus I am like a man who does not hear,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-14">And in whose mouth <i>is</i> no response.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>in You, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, I hope;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-15">You will <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>hear, O Lord my God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For I said, “<i>Hear me,</i> lest they rejoice over me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-16">Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt <i>themselves</i> against me.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For I <i>am</i> ready to fall,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-17">And my sorrow <i>is</i> continually before me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For I will declare my iniquity;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-18">I will be in <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>anguish over my sin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But my enemies <i>are</i> vigorous, <i>and</i> they are strong;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-19">And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Those also who render evil for good,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-20">They are my adversaries, because I follow <i>what is</i> good.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Do not forsake me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-21">O my God, be not far from me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Make haste to help me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-38-22">O Lord, my salvation!</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-14497a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 38:6">Psalm 38:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>bent down</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14506b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 38:15">Psalm 38:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>I wait for You, O <span class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14506c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 38:15">Psalm 38:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>answer</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14509d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 38:18">Psalm 38:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>anxiety</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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