Ps.38.1
O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Ps.38.1
Take a deep breath, GOD; calm down--don't be so hasty with your punishing rod.
Ps.38.1
O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
Ps.38.1
O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure!
Ps.38.1
O LORD, don't rebuke me in your anger! Don't discipline me in your rage!
Ps.38.2
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Ps.38.2
Your sharp-pointed arrows of rebuke draw blood; my backside smarts from your caning.
Ps.38.2
For your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down upon me.
Ps.38.2
For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.
Ps.38.2
Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me.
Ps.38.3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Ps.38.3
I've lost twenty pounds in two months because of your accusation. My bones are brittle as dry sticks because of my sin.
Ps.38.3
Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin.
Ps.38.3
There is no soundness in my flesh Because of Your anger, Nor any health in my bones Because of my sin.
Ps.38.3
Because of your anger, my whole body is sick; my health is broken because of my sins.
Ps.38.4
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Ps.38.4
I'm swamped by my bad behavior, collapsed under gunnysacks of guilt.
Ps.38.4
My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
Ps.38.4
For my iniquities have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Ps.38.4
My guilt overwhelms me--it is a burden too heavy to bear.
Ps.38.5
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
Ps.38.5
The cuts in my flesh stink and grow maggots because I've lived so badly.
Ps.38.5
My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
Ps.38.5
My wounds are foul and festering Because of my foolishness.
Ps.38.5
My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins.
Ps.38.6
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Ps.38.6
And now I'm flat on my face feeling sorry for myself morning to night.
Ps.38.6
I am bowed down and brought very low; all day long I go about mourning.
Ps.38.6
I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
Ps.38.6
I am bent over and racked with pain. My days are filled with grief.
Ps.38.7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
Ps.38.7
All my insides are on fire, my body is a wreck.
Ps.38.7
My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.
Ps.38.7
For my loins are full of inflammation, And there is no soundness in my flesh.
Ps.38.7
A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken.
Ps.38.8
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps.38.8
I'm on my last legs; I've had it--my life is a vomit of groans.
Ps.38.8
I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
Ps.38.8
I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.
Ps.38.8
I am exhausted and completely crushed. My groans come from an anguished heart.
Ps.38.9
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
Ps.38.9
Lord, my longings are sitting in plain sight, my groans an old story to you.
Ps.38.9
All my longings lie open before you, O Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Ps.38.9
Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.
Ps.38.9
You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh.
Ps.38.10
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Ps.38.10
My heart's about to break; I'm a burned-out case. Cataracts blind me to God and good;
Ps.38.10
My heart pounds, my strength fails me; even the light has gone from my eyes.
Ps.38.10
My heart pants, my strength fails me; As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.
Ps.38.10
My heart beats wildly, my strength fails, and I am going blind.
Ps.38.11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Ps.38.11
old friends avoid me like the plague. My cousins never visit, my neighbors stab me in the back.
Ps.38.11
My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds; my neighbors stay far away.
Ps.38.11
My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague, And my relatives stand afar off.
Ps.38.11
My loved ones and friends stay away, fearing my disease. Even my own family stands at a distance.
Ps.38.12
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.
Ps.38.12
My competitors blacken my name, devoutly they pray for my ruin.
Ps.38.12
Those who seek my life set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they plot deception.
Ps.38.12
Those also who seek my life lay snares for me; Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction, And plan deception all the day long.
Ps.38.12
Meanwhile, my enemies lay traps for me; they make plans to ruin me. They think up treacherous deeds all day long.
Ps.38.13
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Ps.38.13
But I'm deaf and mute to it all, ears shut, mouth shut.
Ps.38.13
I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear, like a mute, who cannot open his mouth;
Ps.38.13
But I, like a deaf man, do not hear; And I am like a mute who does not open his mouth.
Ps.38.13
But I am deaf to all their threats. I am silent before them as one who cannot speak.
Ps.38.14
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Ps.38.14
I don't hear a word they say, don't speak a word in response.
Ps.38.14
I have become like a man who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
Ps.38.14
Thus I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth is no response.
Ps.38.14
I choose to hear nothing, and I make no reply.
Ps.38.15
For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
Ps.38.15
What I do, GOD, is wait for you, wait for my Lord, my God--you will answer!
Ps.38.15
I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God.
Ps.38.15
For in You, O LORD, I hope; You will hear, O Lord my God.
Ps.38.15
For I am waiting for you, O LORD. You must answer for me, O Lord my God.
Ps.38.16
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Ps.38.16
I wait and pray so they won't laugh me off, won't smugly strut off when I stumble.
Ps.38.16
For I said, "Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
Ps.38.16
For I said, "Hear me, lest they rejoice over me, Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me."
Ps.38.16
I prayed, "Don't let my enemies gloat over me or rejoice at my downfall."
Ps.38.17
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Ps.38.17
I'm on the edge of losing it--the pain in my gut keeps burning.
Ps.38.17
For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
Ps.38.17
For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
Ps.38.17
I am on the verge of collapse, facing constant pain.
Ps.38.18
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Ps.38.18
I'm ready to tell my story of failure, I'm no longer smug in my sin.
Ps.38.18
I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
Ps.38.18
For I will declare my iniquity; I will be in anguish over my sin.
Ps.38.18
But I confess my sins; I am deeply sorry for what I have done.
Ps.38.19
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Ps.38.19
My enemies are alive and in action, a lynch mob after my neck.
Ps.38.19
Many are those who are my vigorous enemies; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Ps.38.19
But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong; And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.
Ps.38.19
My enemies are many; they hate me though I have done nothing against them.
Ps.38.20
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
Ps.38.20
I give out good and get back evil from God--haters who can't stand a God--lover.
Ps.38.20
Those who repay my good with evil slander me when I pursue what is good.
Ps.38.20
Those also who render evil for good, They are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.
Ps.38.20
They repay me evil for good and oppose me because I stand for the right.
Ps.38.21
Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Ps.38.21
Don't dump me, GOD; my God, don't stand me up.
Ps.38.21
O LORD, do not forsake me; be not far from me, O my God.
Ps.38.21
Do not forsake me, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me!
Ps.38.21
Do not abandon me, LORD. Do not stand at a distance, my God.
