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psalm 38

Thursday, December 27, 2007

The Psalms
38

The Prayer of a Suffering Penitent

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath:

neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

2 For thine arrows stick fast in me,

and thy hand presseth me sore.

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 mine iniquities are gone over mine head:

as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly;

I go mourning all the day long.

7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease:

and there is no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am feeble and sore broken:

I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

9 Lord, all my desire is before thee;

and my groaning is not hid from thee.

10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me:

as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore;

and my kinsmen stand afar off.

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.

13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not;

and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not,

and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope:

thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me:

when my foot slippeth,

they magnify themselves against me.

17 For I am ready to halt,

and my sorrow is continually before me.

18 For I will declare mine iniquity;

I will be sorry for my sin.

19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong:

and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;

because I follow the thing that good is.

21 Forsake me not, O LORD:

O my God, be not far from me.

22 Make haste to help me,

O Lord my salvation.

dear lord, thank you for giving me such a great Psalm of David. i really thank you for giving such great friends and family! i thank you that i am able to stay in a house where there is internet, thus being able to write this post lord, i thank you for your countenance and your peace which surpasses all understanding to be on me Lord. i love you. i really want to be your best friend lord. (: but im just really sorry that i have not been able to do that for the past 14 years. its just that, i dont feel anything lord. dear jesus, im so sorry that i never put your first, despite of hearing all those surmons lord. i want to put you first in my life. i want you to be the first and on top of everything else lord. then my life would be perfect, with occasional flaws. i thank you for picking me up when i have fallen i really need you lord. please come into my heart again. to be my best friend (: thank you. AMEN.