Psalms 38 · Clearspring

A Psalm of David, for remembrance.

Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

¹Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.+ ²For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.+ ³There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.+ ⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.+ ⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.+ ⁶I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.+ ⁷For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.+ ⁸I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.+ ⁹Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.+ ¹⁰My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.+ ¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.+ ¹²They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.+ ¹³But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.+ ¹⁴Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.+ ¹⁵For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.+ ¹⁶For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”+ ¹⁷For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.+ ¹⁸For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.+ ¹⁹But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.+ ²⁰They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.+ ²¹Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.+ ²²Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.+

Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

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