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Do not rebuke me in your anger;</p> <p class="poetry2">do not correct me in your wrath,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>because your arrows have sunk deep into me,</p> <p class="poetry2">and your hand has come down hard on me.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>My body is unhealthy due to your anger,</p> <p class="poetry2">and my bones have no rest due to my sin.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My iniquities loom over my head;</p> <p class="poetry2">like a cumbersome burden, they are too heavy for me.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My wounds have putrefied and festered</p> <p class="poetry2">because of my foolishness.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I am bent over and walk about greatly bowed down;</p> <p class="poetry2">all day long I go around mourning.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>My insides<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:7 Lit. loins">a</a></span> are burning</p> <p class="poetry2">and my body is unhealthy.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I am weak and utterly crushed;</p> <p class="poetry2">I cry out in distress because of my heart’s anguish.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Lord, all my longings are before you,</p> <p class="poetry2">and my groaning is not hidden from you.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My heart pounds,</p> <p class="poetry2">my strength fails me,</p> <p class="poetry2">even the gleam in my eye is gone.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>As for my friends and my neighbors,</p> <p class="poetry2">they stand aloof from my distress;</p> <p class="poetry2">even my close relatives stand at a distance.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Those who seek my life lay snares for me;</p> <p class="poetry2">those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,</p> <p class="poetry2">and like the mute, who cannot open his mouth.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Indeed, I have become like a man who hears nothing,</p> <p class="poetry2">and in whose mouth there is no rebuke.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Because I have placed my hope in you, LORD,</p> <p class="poetry2">you will answer, Lord, my God.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For I said, “Do not let them gloat over me,</p> <p class="poetry2">as they congratulate themselves when my foot slips.”</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Indeed, I am being set up for a fall,</p> <p class="poetry2">and I am continuously reminded of my pain.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I confess my iniquity,</p> <p class="poetry2">and my sin troubles me.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But my enemies are alive and well;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:19 So MT LXX; DSS 4QPs lack this line">b</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">those who hate me<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:19 So MT LXX; DSS 4QPs read Those who are my enemies">c</a></span> for no reason are numerous.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:19 DSS 4QPs read numerous, and many are those who hate me by deceiving me; cf. Ps 35:19; 69:5">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:20 So LXX DSS 4QPs; MT reads And they">e</a></span> reward my good with evil,</p> <p class="poetry2">opposing me because I seek to do good.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:20 So MT; DSS 4QPs read evil plunder me instead of a good thing">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Don’t forsake me, LORD.</p> <p class="poetry2">My God, do not be so distant from me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Come quickly and help me,</p> <p class="poetry2">Lord, my deliverer.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 38:7 Lit. <i>loins</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 38:19 So MT LXX; DSS 4QPs lack this line<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 38:19 So MT LXX; DSS 4QPs read <i>Those who are my enemies</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 38:19 DSS 4QPs read <i>numerous, and many are those who hate me by deceiving me</i>; cf. 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