PSALMS 38:6-18

⁶I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

⁷For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸I am faint and sore bruised: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

⁹Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

¹⁰My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹²They 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.

¹³But I, as a deaf man, hear not; and I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

¹⁴Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁵For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

¹⁷For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

¹⁸For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.