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Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord

A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.

O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath!

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O Lord, Don't Rebuke Me in Your Wrath

{A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

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For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your hand has come down on me.

2

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

3

There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
because of my sin.

3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

4

For my iniquities have gone over my head;
like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

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For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

5

My wounds stink and fester
because of my foolishness,

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My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

6

I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the day I go about mourning.

6

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

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For my sides are filled with burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.

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For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8

I am feeble and crushed;
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

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I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

9

O Lord, all my longing is before you;
my sighing is not hidden from you.

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Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

10

My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
and the light of my eyes — it also has gone from me.

10

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

11

My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
and my nearest kin stand far off.

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My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

12

Those who seek my life lay their snares;
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin
and meditate treachery all day long.

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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.

13

But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

13

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

14

I have become like a man who does not hear,
and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

14

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

15

But for you, O Lord, do I wait;
it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

15

For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

16

For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me,
who boast against me when my foot slips!”

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For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

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For I am ready to fall,
and my pain is ever before me.

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For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

18

I confess my iniquity;
I am sorry for my sin.

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For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

19

But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,
and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

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But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

20

Those who render me evil for good
accuse me because I follow after good.

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They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

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Do not forsake me, O Lord!
O my God, be not far from me!

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Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

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Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!

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Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

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Psalms 38

Psalms 38