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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/37.htm" title="Psalm 37">◄</a> Psalm 38 <a href="../psalms/39.htm" title="Psalm 39">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 38</span></h3><h3><span class="text">A Penitent Sufferer’s Plea for Healing</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title"><span class="text">A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, do not rebuke me in your anger,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or discipline me in your wrath.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>For your arrows have sunk into me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and your hand has come down on me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>There is no soundness in my flesh</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because of your indignation;</span></span><br /><span class="text">there is no health in my bones</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because of my sin.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For my iniquities have gone over my head;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>My wounds grow foul and fester</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because of my foolishness;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all day long I go around mourning.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>For my loins are filled with burning,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and there is no soundness in my flesh.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>I am utterly spent and crushed;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I groan because of the tumult of my heart.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>O Lord, all my longing is known to you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my sighing is not hidden from you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>My heart throbs, my strength fails me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as for the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my neighbors stand far off.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Those who seek my life lay their snares;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and meditate treachery all day long.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>But I am like the deaf, I do not hear;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like the mute, who cannot speak.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Truly, I am like one who does not hear,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and in whose mouth is no retort.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>But it is for you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, that I wait;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For I pray, “Only do not let them rejoice over me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">those who boast against me when my foot slips.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>For I am ready to fall,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my pain is ever with me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>I confess my iniquity;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I am sorry for my sin.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Those who are my foes without cause<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16580a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> are mighty,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and many are those who hate me wrongfully.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Those who render me evil for good</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">are my adversaries because I follow after good.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Do not forsake me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O my God, do not be far from me;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>make haste to help me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O Lord, my salvation.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 38:19">Psalm 38:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Q Ms: MT <i>my living foes</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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