Psalm 38, a Psalm of David to bring to remembrance.
I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly.
I go mourning all the day long.
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my
flesh.
I am feeble and sore broken.
I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Lord, all my desire is before Thee, and my groaning is not hid from Thee.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me, as for the light of mine eyes it also is
gone from me.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
They 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.
But I as a deaf man heard not, and I was as a dumb man that openeth not
his mouth.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
For in Thee, O Lord, do I hope.
Thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me.
When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
For I will declare mine iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin.
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong, and they that hate me wrongfully
are multiplied.
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries, because I follow the
thing that good is.
Forsake me not, O Lord.
O my God, be not far from me.
Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.