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title: Psalm 38
slug: kjv/psalm-38
createdAt: 2024-08-21T03:00:02.974Z
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**1 **\{A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} 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 ***There is* no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither *is there any* 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 *and* 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 *disease*: and *there is* 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 *is* 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 *for me*: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

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

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

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

**16 **For I said, *Hear me*, lest *otherwise* they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify *themselves* against me.

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

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

**19 **But mine enemies *are* lively, *and* 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 *the thing that* good *is*.

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

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