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Psalm 38

1 LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

1 Take a deep breath, God; calm down - don't be so hasty with your punishing rod.

2 Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.

2 Your sharp-pointed arrows of rebuke draw blood; my backside smarts from your caning.

3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.

3 I've lost twenty pounds in two months because of your accusation. My bones are brittle as dry sticks because of my sin.

4 My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.

4 I'm swamped by my bad behavior, collapsed under gunnysacks of guilt.

5 My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.

5 The cuts in my flesh stink and grow maggots because I've lived so badly.

6 I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.

6 And now I'm flat on my face feeling sorry for myself morning to night.

7 My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.

7 All my insides are on fire, my body is a wreck.

8 I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

8 I'm on my last legs; I've had it - my life is a vomit of groans.

9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.

9 Lord, my longings are sitting in plain sight, my groans an old story to you.

10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.

10 My heart's about to break; I'm a burned-out case. Cataracts blind me to God and good;

11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.

11 old friends avoid me like the plague. My cousins never visit, my neighbors stab me in the back.

12 Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.

12 My competitors blacken my name, devoutly they pray for my ruin.

13 I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;

13 But I'm deaf and mute to it all, ears shut, mouth shut.

14 I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.

14 I don't hear a word they say, don't speak a word in response.

15 LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.

15 What I do, God, is wait for you, wait for my Lord, my God - you will answer!

16 For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”

16 I wait and pray so they won't laugh me off, won't smugly strut off when I stumble.

17 For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

17 I'm on the edge of losing it - the pain in my gut keeps burning.

18 I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

18 I'm ready to tell my story of failure, I'm no longer smug in my sin.

19 Many have become my enemies without cause ; those who hate me without reason are numerous.

19 My enemies are alive and in action, a lynch mob after my neck.

20 Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.

20 I give out good and get back evil from God-haters who can't stand a God-lover.

21 LORD, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.

21 Don't dump me, God; my God, don't stand me up.

22 Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.

22 Hurry and help me; I want some wide-open space in my life!