| 38:1
| O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure.
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| 38:2
| For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
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| 38:3
| There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is
there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
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| 38:4
| For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are
too heavy for me.
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| 38:5
| My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
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| 38:6
| I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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| 38:7
| For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no
soundness in my flesh.
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| 38:8
| I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness
of my heart.
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| 38:9
| Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from
thee.
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| 38:10
| My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes,
it also is gone from me.
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| 38:11
| My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand
afar off.
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| 38:12
| They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek
my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
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| 38:13
| But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth
not his mouth.
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| 38:14
| Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no
reproofs.
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| 38:15
| For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
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| 38:16
| For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my
foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
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| 38:17
| For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
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| 38:18
| For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
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| 38:19
| But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me
wrongfully are multiplied.
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| 38:20
| They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I
follow the thing that good is.
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| 38:21
| Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
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| 38:22
| Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
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