# Psalms 38 [[Psalms 37|←]] • [[Psalms 39|→]] --- A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. ### 1 O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ### 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. ### 3 no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither rest in my bones because of my sin. ### 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ### 5 My wounds stink are corrupt because of my foolishness. ### 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. ### 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome and no soundness in my flesh. ### 8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. ### 9 Lord, all my desire before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. ### 10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. ### 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. ### 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. ### 13 But I, as a deaf heard not; and as a dumb man openeth not his mouth. ### 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth no reproofs. ### 15 For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. ### 16 For I said, lest they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify against me. ### 17 For I ready to halt, and my sorrow continually before me. ### 18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. ### 19 But mine enemies lively, they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. ### 20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow good ### 21 Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me. ### 22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.