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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!
² For your arrows have sunk into me,
   and your hand has come down on me.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health 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.

⁵ My wounds stink and fester
because of my foolishness,
⁶ I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the day I go about mourning.
⁷ For my sides are filled with burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸ I am feeble and crushed;
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

⁹ O Lord, all my longing is before you;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
¹⁰ My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
¹¹ My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
and my nearest kin stand far off.

¹² Those who seek my life lay their snares;
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin
and meditate treachery all day long.

¹³ But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
¹⁴ I have become like a man who does not hear,
and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

¹⁵ But for you, O Lord, do I wait;
it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
¹⁶ For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me,
who boast against me when my foot slips!”

¹⁷ For I am ready to fall,
and my pain is ever before me.
¹⁸ I confess my iniquity;
I am sorry for my sin.
¹⁹ But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,
and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
²⁰ Those who render me evil for good
accuse me because I follow after good.

²¹ Do not forsake me, O Lord!
O my God, be not far from me!
²² Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!

Cross references:

1. Psalm 38:1 : Ps. 70, title; [1 Chr. 16:4]
2. Psalm 38:1 : Ps. 6:1
3. Psalm 38:2 : Job 6:4
4. Psalm 38:2 : See Ps. 32:4
5. Psalm 38:3 : Isa. 1:6
6. Psalm 38:3 : See Ps. 31:10
7. Psalm 38:4 : Ps. 40:12; Ezra 9:6
8. Psalm 38:6 : Ps. 35:14; 42:5, 6, 11; 43:5
9. Psalm 38:6 : Isa. 21:3
10. Psalm 38:6 : [Job 30:28]
11. Psalm 38:7 : [See ver. 3 above]; Isa. 1:6
12. Psalm 38:8 : See Ps. 22:1
13. Psalm 38:9 : Ps. 6:6
14. Psalm 38:10 : See Ps. 6:7
15. Psalm 38:11 : Ps. 88:18; See Job 19:13-20
16. Psalm 38:11 : [Luke 10:31, 32]
17. Psalm 38:11 : Ps. 39:10; Isa. 53:4, 8
18. Psalm 38:11 : [Matt. 27:55; Mark 15:40; Luke 23:49]
19. Psalm 38:12 : [Matt. 22:15]; Mark 12:13; Luke 20:20; See 2 Sam. 17:1-3
20. Psalm 38:12 : [2 Sam. 16:7, 8]
21. Psalm 38:12 : Ps. 35:20
22. Psalm 38:13 : Ps. 39:2, 9; Isa. 53:7; 1 Pet. 2:23
23. Psalm 38:14 : [Job 23:4]
24. Psalm 38:15 : Ps. 39:7; [2 Sam. 16:12]
25. Psalm 38:16 : [Ps. 13:4]
26. Psalm 38:16 : See Job 19:5
27. Psalm 38:16 : Ps. 94:18
28. Psalm 38:17 : Ps. 35:15; Jer. 20:10
29. Psalm 38:18 : See Ps. 32:5
30. Psalm 38:18 : [2 Cor. 7:9, 10]
31. Psalm 38:19 : Ps. 35:19
32. Psalm 38:20 : See Ps. 35:12
33. Psalm 38:20 : Ps. 109:4
34. Psalm 38:20 : [3 John 11]
35. Psalm 38:21 : See Ps. 10:1
36. Psalm 38:22 : See Ps. 40:13
37. Psalm 38:22 : See Ps. 27:1