UST PSA Chapter 38

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38 This is a psalm David, ask God to remember him.

1 Yahweh, please do not correct me angrily;

no, please do not punish me wrathfully.

2 I feel as though you have shot arrows into me,

and that you have struck me with your hand.

3 Because you are so angry with me,

my whole body suffers.

My body is restless

because I have sinned.

4 Indeed, all my sins are like flood waters that rise above my head;

they are like a heavy load that is too much for me to bear.

5 Because I have acted foolishly,

I have sores that keep getting worse and stink.

6 My body is twisted and bent over very low.

I go around sad and grieving constantly.

7 This is because there is a fever inside me,

and my whole body is sick.

8 I am exhausted and feel completely broken.

I moan loudly because I feel so distressed.

9 Lord, you know everything that I long for,

and you hear every time that I sigh.

10 My heart beats rapidly and I am very weak.

Even my eyesight is failing me.

11 My friends and the people I love keep away from me because of my disease;

even my own family stays far away from me.

12 Those who want to kill me set traps for me,

and those who want to harm me talk about how to destroy me

and they constantly plot how they will deceive me.

13 But I act like someone who is deaf, and I do not listen to them.

I act like someone who cannot speak, and I say nothing to them.

14 I have become like a man who cannot hear

and who cannot argue back.

15 This is because I wait for you, Yahweh, to help me.

You will be the one who will respond, Lord my God.

16 I know this because I prayed,

“Do not let my enemies celebrate over me. Do not let them gloat over me if something bad happens to me.”

17 Indeed, I feel that something bad will soon happen,

and I am constantly in pain.

18 Certainly, I confess all the wrong things that I have done;

I feel terrible about my sin.

19 But my vigorous enemies are powerful,

and there are many people who hate me for no reason.

20 When I do good things for people, some of them do evil things to me in return.

Those people accuse me of doing evil things, even though I am trying to do what is right.

21 Yahweh, please do not leave me!

My God, please stay near me!

22 Come quickly to help me,

Lord, you who save me!