Psalms 38 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Chanting of David to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath! A psalm of David. A petition. LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
2 O Jehovah, thou wilt not reprove me in thy wrath, and thou wilt not correct me in thine anger. For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me. Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.
3 For thine arrows came down upon me, and thy hand will press down upon me. There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin. Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
4 No soundness in my flesh from thy wrath; no peace in my bones from the face of my sins. For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
5 For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me. My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness, My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
6 My stripes became loathsome: they flowed from the face of my folly. I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning. I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
7 I was moved, I was even greatly bowed down: all the day I went darkened. For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
8 For my loins were filled with inflammation, and no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart. I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
9 I was languid and crushed even greatly: I roared from the groaning of my heart. O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you. All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
10 O Jehovah, before thee all my desire, and my sighing was not hid from thee. My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me. My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
11 My heart moved about rapidly, my strength forsook me, and the light of mine eyes also they not with me. My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off. My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.
12 My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off. Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long. Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.
13 And they seeking my soul will lay snares: and they seeking my evil spake mischief, and they will meditate deceits all the day, But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth. I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;
14 And I, as deaf, shall not hear; and as dumb, he will not open his mouth. I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes. I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
15 And I as a man that heard not, and not in his mouth confutations. But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer. LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.
16 For, for thee, O Jehovah, I waited: thou wilt answer, O Jehovah my God. For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!” For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”
17 For I said, Lest they shall rejoice over me: in the wavering of my foot they magnified against me. For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me. For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
18 For I being prepared for halting, and my pain always before me. I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin. I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
19 For I will announce mine iniquity: I shall be afraid for my sin. But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully. Many have become my enemies without cause; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
20 And mine enemies living, they were strong: and they hating me with falsehood were multiplied. Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good. Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.
21 And they requiting evil for good will be mine adversaries, for my pursuing Thou wilt not forsake me, O Jehovah: my God, thou wilt not remove far off from me. Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me! LORD, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.
22 Hasten for my help, O Jehovah, my salvation. Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation! Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.
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