Psalm 38
Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
(Psalms 6:1–10)
A Psalm of David, for remembrance.
¹ O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
² For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
³ There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
⁴ For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
⁵ My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
⁶ I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
⁷ For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
⁸ I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
⁹ O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
¹⁰ My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
¹¹ My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
¹² Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
¹³ But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
¹⁴ I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
¹⁵ I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
¹⁶ For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
¹⁷ For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
¹⁸ Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
¹⁹ Many are my enemies without cause,1 and many hate me without reason.2
²⁰ Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
²¹ Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
²² Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.