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David describes God's chastening, overwhelming iniquity, bodily suffering, abandonment, and hostile watchers, yet confesses sin and waits for God.
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Psalms 38
David describes God's chastening, overwhelming iniquity, bodily suffering, abandonment, and hostile watchers, yet confesses sin and waits for God.
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1O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten…2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand…3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine…4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an…5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go…7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and…8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by…9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning…10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the…11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore;…12They also that seek after my life lay snares for…13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I…14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and…15For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt…16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice…17For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is…18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry…19But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and…20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries;…21Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not…22Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.