{"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/web/psalms/38","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T01:59:54.488Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":38,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":37,"nextChapter":39,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For I said, |Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.|"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For I am ready to fall. My pain 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 vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation. For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 38 (WEB)","markdown":"[Psalms 38](https://primebible.com/web/psalms/38)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/psalms/38 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}