Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NASB20

NASB20

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
The Blue Letter Bible

Psalm 38 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

PSALM 38

Prayer of a Suffering Penitent.

A Psalm of David, for a memorial.

1 LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath,

And do not punish me in Your burning anger.

2 For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,

And Your hand has pressed down on me.

3 There is no healthy part in my flesh because of Your indignation;

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

4 For my guilty deeds have gone over my head;

Like a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

5 My [fn]wounds grow foul and fester

Because of my foolishness.

6 I am bent over and greatly bowed down;

I go in mourning all day long.

7 For my [fn]sides are filled with burning,

And there is no healthy part in my flesh.

8 I feel faint and [fn]badly crushed;

I [fn]groan because of the [fn]agitation of my heart.

9 Lord, all my desire is [fn]before You;

And my sighing is not hidden from You.

10 My heart throbs, my strength fails me;

And the light of my eyes, even [fn]that [fn]has gone from me.

11 My [fn]loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;

And my kinsmen stand far away.

12 Those who seek my life lay snares for me;

And those who seek to injure me have [fn]threatened destruction,

And they plot deception all day long.

13 But I, like a person who is deaf, do not hear;

And I am like a person who cannot speak, who does not open his mouth.

14 Yes, I am like a person who does not hear,

And in whose mouth are no arguments.

15 For I wait for You, LORD;

You will answer, Lord my God.

16 For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,

Who, when my foot slips, would exalt themselves over me.”

17 For I am ready to fall,

And my [fn]sorrow is continually before me.

18 For I admit my guilt;

I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

19 But my enemies are vigorous and [fn]strong,

And those who wrongfully hate me are many.

20 And those who repay evil for good,

They become my enemies, because I follow what is good.

21 Do not abandon me, LORD;

My God, do not be far from me!

22 Hurry to help me,

Lord, my salvation!

See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
Or stripes
Lit loins
Or greatly
Lit roar
Lit growling
Or known to You
Lit they have
Lit is not with me
Or lovers
Lit spoken
Lit pain
Or numerous
NASB20

New American Standard Bible 2020
Copyright (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995, 2020
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved
https://www.lockman.org/new-american-standard-bible-nasb/

The "NASB," "NAS," "New American Standard Bible," and "New American Standard" trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by The Lockman Foundation. Use of these trademarks requires the permission of The Lockman Foundation.

For Permission To Quote visit http://www.lockman.org

For more information on this translation, see the NASB20 Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NASB20
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NASB20
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.