Psalm 38
English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo
- A song of David, to make remembrance.
- O Lord, do not reprove me with Your anger, nor chastise me with Your wrath.
- For Your arrows have been shot into me, and Your hand has come down upon me.
- There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your fury; there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
- For my iniquities passed over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
- My boils are putrid; they fester because of my folly.
- I am very much stunned and bowed; all day I go around in gloom.
- For my loins are full of self-effacement; there is no soundness in my flesh.
- I passed out and was very crushed; I moaned from the turmoil in my heart.
- O Lord, all my desire is before You, and my sigh is not hidden from You.
- My heart is engulfed; my strength has left me, and the light of my eyes- they too are not with me.
- My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my affliction, and those close to me stood afar.
- And those who seek my life lay traps, and those who seek my harm speak treachery, and all day long they think of deceits.
- But I am as a deaf person, I do not hear, and like a mute, who does not open his mouth.
- And I was as a man who does not understand and in whose mouth are no arguments.
- Because I hoped for You, O Lord; You shall answer, O Lord, my God.
- For I said, « Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot faltered, they magnified themselves over me. »
- For I am ready for disaster, and my pain is always before me.
- For I relate my iniquity; I worry about my sin.
- But my enemies are in the vigor of life, and those who hate me for false reasons have become great.
- And they repay evil for good; they hate me for my pursuit of goodness.
- Do not forsake me, O Lord, my God; do not distance Yourself from me.
- Hasten to my aid, O Lord, my salvation.