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Psalm 38 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Prayer in Time of Chastening
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:1 - A Psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath,
Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:2 - For Your arrows pierce me deeply,
And Your hand presses me down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:3 - There is no soundness in my flesh
Because of Your anger,
Nor any health in my bones
Because of my sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:4 - For my iniquities have gone over my head;
Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:5 - My wounds are foul and festering
Because of my foolishness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:6 - I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly;
I go mourning all the day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:7 - For my loins are full of inflammation,
And there is no soundness in my flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:8 - I am feeble and severely broken;
I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:9 - Lord, all my desire is before You;
And my sighing is not hidden from You.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:10 - My heart pants, my strength fails me;
As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:11 - My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague,
And my relatives stand afar off.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:12 - Those also who seek my life lay snares for me;
Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction,
And plan deception all the day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:13 - But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a mute who does not open his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:14 - Thus I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth is no response.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:15 - For in You, O LORD, I hope;
You will hear, O Lord my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:16 - For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me,
Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:17 - For I am ready to fall,
And my sorrow is continually before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:18 - For I will declare my iniquity;
I will be in anguish over my sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:19 - But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong;
And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:20 - Those also who render evil for good,
They are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:21 - Do not forsake me, O LORD;
O my God, be not far from me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:22 - Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!
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