Psalms 38 from Scroll 4Q83 Psalms^a

1 Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,

neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

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3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,

neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

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5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt,

because of my foolishness.

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7 For my waist is filled with burning.

There is no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am faint and severely bruised.

I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

9 Lord, all my desire is before you.

My groaning is not hidden from you.

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11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague I have become a plague before my friends and companions.

My kinsmen stand far away.

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13 But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear.

I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

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15 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope.

You will answer me, Lord, because you are my God.

16 For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me,

or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

17 For I am ready to fall.

My pain is continually before me.

18 For I will declare my iniquity.

I will be sorry for my sin.

19 But my enemies are vigorous are without reason and many.

Those who hate me without reason by deceiving me are numerous.

20 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me,

because I follow what is good plunder me instead of doing a good deed.

21 Don’t forsake me, Yahweh.

My God, don’t be far from me.

22 Hurry to me to help me,

Lord, my salvation.