{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/38","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T19:47:59.897Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":38,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":37,"nextChapter":39,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For my iniquities are gone over my head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 38 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 38](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/38)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/38 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}