Psalms 38:6-22

⁶(38:7) I am bent double; I am bowed down to the utmost; all the day long I go about full of grief.

⁷(38:8) For my loins are filled with a burning disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸(38:9) I am made faint and crushed to the utmost; I cry aloud because of the groaning of my heart.

⁹(38:10) Lord, before thee is all my longing; and my sighing is from thee not hidden.

¹⁰(38:11) My heart is restless, my strength hath left me; and the light of my eyes—that also is no more with me.

¹¹(38:12) My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹²(38:13) They also that seek after my life lay snares; and they that wish for my mishap speak wicked falsehoods; and deceits do they devise all the day long.

¹³(38:14) But I, as a deaf man, hear not; and I am as a dumb man that cannot open his mouth.

¹⁴(38:15) Thus am I as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no words of defence.

¹⁵(38:16) For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

¹⁶(38:17) For I said, Perhaps they might rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they might magnify themselves over me.

¹⁷(38:18) For I am prepared for my downfall, and my pain is continually before me.

¹⁸(38:19) For I will tell of my iniquity; I will be grieved because of my sin.

¹⁹(38:20) But my enemies are strong in life; and numerous are those that hate me wrongfully;

²⁰(38:21) They also that repay me evil in lieu of good; they hate me bitterly because I pursue what is good.

²¹(38:22) Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.

²²(38:23) Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.