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O Lord, Don't Rebuke Me in Your Wrath

{A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

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Psalm 38^a

A psalm of David. A petition.

Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.

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

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Your arrows have pierced me,
and your hand has come down on me.

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

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Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;
there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.

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

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My guilt has overwhelmed me
like a burden too heavy to bear.

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My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

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My wounds fester and are loathsome
because of my sinful folly.

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

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I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning.

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

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My back is filled with searing pain;
there is no health in my body.

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

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I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart.

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

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All my longings lie open before you, Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you.

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

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My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
even the light has gone from my eyes.

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

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My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;
my neighbors stay far away.

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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.

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Those who want to kill me set their traps,
those who would harm me talk of my ruin;
all day long they scheme and lie.

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

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I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,
like the mute, who cannot speak;

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

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I have become like one who does not hear,
whose mouth can offer no reply.

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

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Lord, I wait for you;
you will answer, Lord my God.

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

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For I said, “Do not let them gloat
or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”

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

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For I am about to fall,
and my pain is ever with me.

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

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I confess my iniquity;
I am troubled by my sin.

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

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Many have become my enemies without causeb;
those who hate me without reason are numerous.

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

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Those who repay my good with evil
lodge accusations against me,
though I seek only to do what is good.

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

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Lord, do not forsake me;
do not be far from me, my God.

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Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

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Come quickly to help me,
my Lord and my Savior.

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Psalms 38

Psalms 38