Psalms 38
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Psalm 38
A Penitent Sufferer’s Plea for Healing
A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.
1 #
Ps 6.1
O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
2 #
Job 6.4; Ps 32.4 For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your hand has come down on me.
3 #
Ps 6.2; Isa 1.6 There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
because of my sin.
4 #
Ezra 9.6
For my iniquities have gone over my head;
they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.
5 #
Ps 69.5
My wounds grow foul and fester
because of my foolishness;
6 #
Ps 35.14; 42.9 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all day long I go around mourning.
7 #
v 3
; Ps 102.3For my loins are filled with burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 #
Job 3.24; Ps 22.1 I am utterly spent and crushed;
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.
9 #
Ps 6.6; 10.17 O Lord, all my longing is known to you;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
10My heart throbs; my strength fails me;
as for the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
11 #
Ps 31.11; Lk 23.49 My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,
and my neighbors stand far off.
12 #
Ps 35.4, 20; 54.3; 140.5 Those who seek my life lay their snares;
those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin
and meditate on treachery all day long.
13 #
Ps 39.2, 9 But I am like the deaf; I do not hear;
like the mute, who cannot speak.
14Truly, I am like one who does not hear
and in whose mouth is no retort.
15 #
Ps 17.6; 39.7 But it is for you, O Lord, that I wait;
it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
16 #
Ps 13.4; 35.26 For I pray, “Only do not let them rejoice over me,
those who boast against me when my foot slips.”
17 #
Ps 13.2
For I am ready to fall,
and my pain is ever with me.
18 #
Ps 32.5; 2 Cor 7.9 I confess my iniquity;
I am sorry for my sin.
19 #
Ps 18.17; 35.19 Those who are my foes without cause#38.19 Q ms: MT my living foes are mighty,
and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
20 #
Ps 35.12; 1 Jn 3.12 Those who render me evil for good
are my adversaries because I follow after good.
21 #
Ps 35.22
Do not forsake me, O Lord;
O my God, do not be far from me;
22 #
Ps 27.1; 40.13, 17 make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation.
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