The Psalms
38. fejezet
1. vers
A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2. vers
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
3. vers
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
4. vers
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5. vers
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
6. vers
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
7. vers
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
8. vers
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
9. vers
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
10. vers
My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
11. vers
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
12. vers
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
13. vers
But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
14. vers
Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15. vers
For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.
16. vers
For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
17. vers
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
18. vers
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
19. vers
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
20. vers
They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
21. vers
Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
22. vers
Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
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