A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. |
Psalm 38:1-22 Book# 1 of Psalms [in Smaller Chunks] |
O Lord, [don't chastise] me in Your [anger.] Neither [bring me low] in Your hot displeasure. For Your arrows stick [tight within] me & Your hand presses me [down.] |
There is no [stability] in my flesh, because of Your anger. Neither is there any rest [for] my bones, because of my sin. For my [sins overwhelm me, like] a heavy burden, [that is] too heavy for me [to carry.] |
My wounds stink & are [disgusting,] because of my foolishness. I am troubled & [terribly] bowed down. All day long, I go mourning. For my [body] is filled with a [repulsive] disease & there is no [stability] in my flesh. I am [weak] & [very] broken. I have [groaned, because] of the [unrest within] my heart. |
Lord, all my desire is before You & all my [groans aren't hidden] from You. My heart pants & my strength fails me. For the light of my eyes [has] also gone from me. |
My friends & [those whom I love,] stand [unsympathetic, because of] My [affliction] & My [relatives] stand [far away.] [Those who] also seek after My life, lay [traps] for Me & [those who] seek to [harm] Me, [plot & speak of deceitful plans] all day long. |
[Matthew 26:3-4 Then assembled together the chief priests, scribes & elders of the people, to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas & consulted [so] they might take Jesus by [trickery] & kill Him.] |
But I, [like] a deaf man, [didn't] hear & I was [like] a [mute] man, [who doesn't] open his mouth. [Isaiah 53:6-7 All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way & the Lord has laid on Him the [sin] of all of us. |
He was oppressed & He was afflicted, yet He [didn't] open His mouth. He is brought [like] a lamb to the slaughter & [like] sheep before [its] shearers [are mute,] so He [didn't] open His mouth.] |
Thus, I was [like] a man [who doesn't] hear & in whose mouth [there] are no [warnings.] O Lord, for I do hope in You. You will hear, O Lord, my God. For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips. |
They magnify themselves against me. For I am ready to fall] & my sorrow is continually before me. I will be sorry for my sins: For I will declare [my] iniquities. But [my] enemies are [vigorous] & they are strong. |
[Those who] wrongfully hate Me, are multiplied. Also, [those who give] evil for good, are My adversaries, because I follow [what] is good. [Romans 12:2 And [don't act in accordance] to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may [test] what is that good, acceptable & perfect will of God.] |
O Lord, [don't abandon] Me. O my God, [don't be far from Me. [Hurry] to help Me, O Lord, My Salvation. [Mark 15:34 and at the 9th hour Jesus cried [out] with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Which is, being interpreted, My God, My God, why have You [abandoned] Me?] |