Psalms 38:8-17

⁸I am feeble and grievously broken: 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 panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of my eyes, that also is gone from me.

¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my affliction; 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 , heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

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

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

¹⁶For I said, Hear me , lest otherwise they should 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.