Psalms 38:9-14

⁹Deliver me from all my transgressions: Thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.

¹⁰I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me.

¹¹Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thy hand.

¹²Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, And thou makest his life to consume away like a spider’s web: Nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

¹³O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: Attend to my tears: be not silent, For I am a sojourner in the land, And a stranger, as all my fathers were.

¹⁴Spare me, that I may be refreshed, Before I depart, and be no more.