
Day VIII : Morning Prayer

Psalm 38 - Domine, ne in furore

1   Rebuke me not, O Lord, in your anger, +
    neither chasten me in your weighty displeasure.

2   For your arrows stick fast in me, +
    and your hand presses me hard.

3   There is no health in my flesh, because of your displeasure; +
    neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin.

4   For my iniquities have gone over my head +
    and are like a heavy burden, too much for me to bear.

5   My wounds stink and fester, +
    by reason of my foolishness.

6   I am brought into such great trouble and misery +
    that I go about mourning all the day long.

7   For my loins are filled with burning, +
    and there is no wholeness in my body.

8   I am feeble and sorely smitten; +
    I have roared because of the tumult of my heart.

9   Lord, you know all my desire, +
    and my groaning is not hidden from you.

10  My heart is panting, my strength has failed me, +
    and the sight of my eyes is gone from me.

11  My friends and my neighbors turn away from my trouble, +
    and my kinsmen stand afar off.

12  Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me, +
    and those who go about to do me evil talk of wickedness and imagine deceit all the day long.

13  As for me, I am like the deaf who do not hear, +
    and as one who is mute, who does not open his mouth.

14  I have become like a man who hears not, +
    and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

15  For in you, O Lord, have I put my trust; +
    you shall answer for me, O Lord my God.

16  I have said, “Let not my enemies triumph over me,” +
    for when my foot slipped, they rejoiced greatly over me.

17  Truly, I am about to fall, +
    and my pain is ever with me.

18  For I will confess my wickedness, +
    and be sorry for my sin.

19  But my enemies live, and are mighty, +
    and those who hate me wrongfully are many in number.

20  Those also who repay evil for good are against me, +
    because I follow that which is good.

21  Forsake me not, O Lord my God; +
    O be not far from me.

22  Make haste to help me, +
    O Lord God of my salvation.
