Psalms 38 · Clearspring

A Psalm of David, for remembrance.

Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

¹O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.+ ²For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.+ ³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.+ ⁴For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.+ ⁵My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.+ ⁶I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.+ ⁷For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.+ ⁸I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.+ ⁹Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.+ ¹⁰My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.+ ¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.+ ¹²They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.+ ¹³But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.+ ¹⁴Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.+ ¹⁵For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.+ ¹⁶For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.+ ¹⁷For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.+ ¹⁸For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.+ ¹⁹But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.+ ²⁰They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.+ ²¹Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.+ ²²Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.+

Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

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