Psalm 38, side by side

¹The LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

¹O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

²For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

²For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest 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.

⁴For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

⁵My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

⁵My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

⁶I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

⁶I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

⁷For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

⁷For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

⁸I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

⁹Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

⁹Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

¹⁰My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

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 plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹²They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

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, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

¹³But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

¹⁴Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁴Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁵For I hope in you, the LORD. You will answer, Lord my God.

¹⁵For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

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 fall. My pain is continually before me.

¹⁷For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

¹⁸For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

¹⁸For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

¹⁹But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

¹⁹But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

²⁰They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

²⁰They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

²¹Don’t forsake me, the LORD. My God, don’t be far from me.

²¹Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

²²Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

²²Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.