Psalm 38

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³ There is no soundness in my flesh
    because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
    because of my sin.^(C)
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head;
    they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.^(D)

⁵ My wounds grow foul and fester
    because of my foolishness;^(E)
6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
    all day long I go around mourning.^(F)
7 For my loins are filled with burning,
    and there is no soundness in my flesh.^(G)
8 I am utterly spent and crushed;
    I groan because of the tumult of my heart.^(H)

⁹ O Lord, all my longing is known to you;
    my sighing is not hidden from you.^(I)
10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me;
    as for the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
¹¹ My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,
    and my neighbors stand far off.^(J)

¹² Those who seek my life lay their snares;
    those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin
    and meditate on treachery all day long.^(K)

¹³ But I am like the deaf; I do not hear;
    like the mute, who cannot speak.^(L)
14 Truly, I am like one who does not hear
    and in whose mouth is no retort.

¹⁵ But it is for you, O Lord, that I wait;
    it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.^(M)
16 For I pray, “Only do not let them rejoice over me,
    those who boast against me when my foot slips.”^(N)

¹⁷ For I am ready to fall,
    and my pain is ever with me.^(O)
18 I confess my iniquity;
    I am sorry for my sin.^(P)
19 Those who are my foes without cause^[a] are mighty,
    and many are those who hate me wrongfully.^(Q)
20 Those who render me evil for good
    are my adversaries because I follow after good.^(R)

²¹ Do not forsake me, O Lord;
    O my God, do not be far from me;^(S)
22 make haste to help me,
    O Lord, my salvation.^(T)