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1.8 KiB
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23 lines
1.8 KiB
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Psalms Chapter 38
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1 A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
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2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
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3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
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4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
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5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
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6 I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
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7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
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8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
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9 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.
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10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
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11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
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12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
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13 But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
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14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
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15 For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.
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16 For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
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17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
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18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
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19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
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20 They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
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21 Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
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22 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. |