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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.
1O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good [words]; and my grief was renewed.
2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
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 thine anger; neither is there any rest 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 mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an 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 stink and are 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 troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7And now what [is] my expectation? [is it] not the Lord? and my ground [of hope] is with you. Pause.
7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8Deliver me from all my transgressions: you have made me a reproach to the foolish.
8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for you are he that made me.
9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10Remove your scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of your hand.
10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from 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 sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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 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.
13Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.
13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.