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Psalms 38
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1(39) For the end, a Song of David, to Idithun. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I set a guard on my mouth, while the sinner stood in my presence.
1A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed.
2For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
3My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,
3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
4O Lord, make me to know my end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.
4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5Behold, you have made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before you: nay, every man living [is] altogether vanity. Pause.
5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
6Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain: he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.
6I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
7And now what [is] my expectation? [is it] not the Lord? and my ground [of hope] is with you. Pause.
7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
8Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.
8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
9I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for you are he that made me.
9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
10Remove your scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of your hand.
10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
11You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and you make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.
11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
12O Lord, listen to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers [were].
12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
13Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.
13But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.