in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. 038:002 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. 038:003 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. 038:004 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. 038:005 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. 038:006 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. 038:007 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. 038:008 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart. 038:009 Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you. 038:010 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me. 038:011 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. 038:012 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long. 038:013 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth. 038:014 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs. 038:015 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God. 038:016 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips." 038:017 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me. 038:018 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. 038:019 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous. 038:020 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good. 038:021 Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me. 038:022 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. 039:001 <<For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.>> I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me." 039:002 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred. 039:003 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue: 039:004 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am. 039:005 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah. 039:006 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather. 039:007 Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. 039:008 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish. 039:009 I was mute.