Psalm 38, side by side

¹A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

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

²For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

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

³There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest 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 overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

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

⁵My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

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

⁶I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

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

⁷For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

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

⁸I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

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

⁹O Lord, my every 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 pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

¹⁰My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

¹¹My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

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

¹²Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit 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 like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.

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

¹⁴I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.

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

¹⁵I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.

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

¹⁶For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt 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, and my pain is ever with me.

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

¹⁸Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

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

¹⁹Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

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

²⁰Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

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

²¹Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.

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

²²Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.

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