Psalms 38:7-20

⁷My body is burning with fever, and I am very ill.

⁸I am completely exhausted, and I have no strength. I am very distressed, and I groan with pain.

⁹Yahweh, you know that I desire to be healed; you hear me while I am groaning.

¹⁰My heat is pounding heavily, and all my strength is gone. I am no longer able to see well.

¹¹My friends and neighbors stay away from me because of my sores; even my own family stays away from me.

¹²And those who want to kill me set traps to catch me; those who want to harm me discuss ways to get rid of me; they plot against me all day.

¹³Now I act like I'm deaf, and do not listen to what they say. I act like I cannot talk, so I say nothing to reply to them.

¹⁴I act like a man who does not answer when people talk to him, because he cannot hear anything.

¹⁵But Yahweh, I trust in you. My Lord God, you will answer me.

¹⁶I said to you, “Do not cause me to die, with the result that my enemies will rejoice! Do not cause me to stumble, with the result that they will be very happy!”

¹⁷I say that because I am about to fall down, and I constantly have pain.

¹⁸I confess the wrong things that I have done; I am very sorry for the sins that I have committed.

¹⁹My enemies are healthy and strong; there are many people who hate me for no reason.

²⁰Those who do evil things to me in return for my doing good things to them oppose me because I try to do what is right.