Psalms 37
1O Lord, rebuke me not in your wrath, neither chasten me in your anger. 1
2For your weapons are fixed in me, and you have pressed your hand heavily upon me. 1
3For there is no health in my flesh because of your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins. 1
4For my transgressions have gone over my head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden. 1
5My bruises have become noisome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. 1
6I have been wretched and bowed down continually: I went with a mourning countenance all the day. 1
7For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh. 1
8I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart. 1
9But all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hidden from you. 1
10My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of my eyes is not with me. 1
11My friends and my neighbors drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off. 1
12While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day. 1
13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth. 1
14And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth. 1
15For I hoped in you, O Lord: you will hear, O Lord my God. 1
16For I said, Lest my enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me. 1
17For I am ready for + 37:17 Gr. scourges. plagues, and my grief is continually before me. 1
18For I will declare my iniquity, and be distressed for my sin. 1
19But my enemies live, and are mightier than I: and they that hate me unjustly are multiplied. 1
20They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness. 1
21Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me. 1
22Draw near to my help, O Lord of my salvation.