Psalms 38:4-22

⁴For that my guilt is gone over my head: it weighs like a burden too heavy for me.

⁵My wounds stink and fester, for my foolishness I am tormented.

⁶Bent and bowed am I utterly, all the day going in mourning.

⁷My loins are filled with burning, and in my flesh is no soundness.

⁸I am utterly crushed and numb; I cry louder than lion roars.

⁹Lord, you know all that I long for, my groans are not hidden from you.

¹⁰My heart is throbbing, my strength has failed me. The light of my eyes— even it is gone from me.

¹¹My dear ones and friends keep aloof, and my neighbors stand afar off.

¹²They who aim at my life lay their snares, they who seek my hurt speak of ruin, nursing treachery all the day long.

¹³But I turn a deaf ear and hear not; like the dumb I open not my mouth.

¹⁴I am like one without hearing, with no arguments in my mouth.

¹⁵For my hope, O Lord, is in you. You will answer, O Lord my God,

¹⁶when I utter the hope that those who made scorn of my tottering feet may not rejoice over me.

¹⁷For I am ready to fall, my pain forsakes me never.

¹⁸I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin:

¹⁹My wanton assailants are strong, those who wrongfully hate me are many,

²⁰who render me evil for good, and oppose me, because I make good my goal.

²¹Do not forsake me, O Lord; my God, be not far from me.

²²Hasten to help me, O Lord my savior.