Psalms 38

ECB(i) 1 By David; To remember. O Yah Veh, neither reprove me in your rage nor discipline me in your fury: 2 for your arrows penetrate me and your hand penetrates me. 3 There is neither integrity in my flesh at the face of your rage; nor any shalom in my bones at the face of my sin. 4 For my perversities pass over my head; as a heavy burden, too heavy for me: 5 my wounds stink and dissolve at the face of my folly: 6 I bend; I prostrate mightily; I go darkened all the day long: 7 for my flanks are filled with scorching - no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am exhausted and mighty crushed; I roar from the growling of my heart: 9 Adonay, all my desire is in front of you; and my sighing is not hid from you. 10 My heart palpitates; my force forsakes me; as for the light of my eyes, they are not with me: 11 my lovers and my friends stand against my plague; my neighbours stand afar off: 12 they who seek my soul, snare me; and they who seek my evil, word calamities and meditate deceits all the day long. 13 And I, as deaf, hear not - as a mute who opens not his mouth 14 - as a man who hears not whose mouth reproofs not. 15 For in you, O Yah Veh, I await; answer, O Adonay my Elohim. 16 For I say, lest they cheer over me; when my foot totters they greaten against me. 17 For I am prepared to limp and my sorrow is continually in front of me. 18 For I tell my perversity - concerned for my sin: 19 and my enemies enliven and they are mighty: they who hate me falsely abound by the myriads; 20 they who shalam evil for good are my satans - because I pursue good. 21 Forsake me not, O Yah Veh; O my Elohim, be not far from me. 22 Hasten to help me, O Adonay my salvation.