Psa38

Psalms – Chapter 38

¹A psalm of David. For remembrance.

I

²LORD, do not punish me in your anger;

in your wrath do not chastise me!

³Your arrows have sunk deep in me;

your hand has come down upon me.

⁴There is no wholesomeness in my flesh because of your anger;

there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

⁵My iniquities overwhelm me,

a burden too heavy for me.

II

⁶Foul and festering are my sores

because of my folly.

⁷I am stooped and deeply bowed;

every day I go about mourning.

⁸My loins burn with fever;

there is no wholesomeness in my flesh.

⁹I am numb and utterly crushed;

I wail with anguish of heart.

¹⁰My Lord, my deepest yearning is before you;

my groaning is not hidden from you.

¹¹My heart shudders, my strength forsakes me;

the very light of my eyes has failed.

¹²Friends and companions shun my disease;

my neighbors stand far off.

¹³Those who seek my life lay snares for me;

they seek my misfortune, they speak of ruin;

they plot treachery every day.

III

¹⁴But I am like the deaf, hearing nothing,

like the mute, I do not open my mouth,

¹⁵I am even like someone who does not hear,

who has no answer ready.

¹⁶LORD, it is for you that I wait;

O Lord, my God, you respond.

¹⁷For I have said that they would gloat over me,

exult over me if I stumble.

IV

¹⁸I am very near to falling;

my wounds are with me always.

¹⁹I acknowledge my guilt

and grieve over my sin.

²⁰My enemies live and grow strong,

those who hate me grow numerous fraudulently,

²¹Repaying me evil for good,

accusing me for pursuing good.

²²Do not forsake me, O LORD;

my God, be not far from me!

²³Come quickly to help me,

my Lord and my salvation!

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THE REVISED NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)