Psalms 37 — LXXSA

(38) A Psalm of David for remembrance concerning the Sabbath-day.

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