38:1O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
38:4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
38:5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
38:6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
38:7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
38:8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
38:9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
38:10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
38:12They 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.
38:13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
38:14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
38:15For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
38:16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
38:17For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
38:18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
38:19But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
38:20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
38:21Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
38:22Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
41:1Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
41:2The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
41:3The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
41:4I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
41:5Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
41:6And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
41:7All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
41:8An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
41:9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
41:10But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
41:11By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
41:12And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
41:13Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
69:1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
69:5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
69:6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
69:8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
69:9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
69:10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
69:11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
69:12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
69:13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
69:16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
69:18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
69:19Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
69:20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
69:22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
69:23Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
69:24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
69:25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
69:26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
69:27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
69:29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
69:30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
69:31This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
69:32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
69:33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
69:34Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
69:35For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
69:36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.