>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/ps/38?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07726::c07726) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/psalms/38.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Psalms/38.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/psa/38/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Psalm 38 is attributed to David, who is speaking to God, likely in the land of Israel, expressing his personal anguish and seeking divine intervention and forgiveness. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>A person is feeling very sad and hurt because they made mistakes and they ask God for help and to be close to them. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>The speaker is experiencing deep pain and sorrow due to their sins and feels overwhelmed by their troubles. They plead with God to not leave them and to help them because they are surrounded by enemies and feel isolated. Despite their despair, they express hope in God and a commitment to confess and forsake their sins. > >#Gospel/Repentance #Gospel/Forgiveness #Gospel/TrustInGod ###### 1 1 O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ###### 2 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. ###### 3 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. ###### 4 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ###### 5 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. ###### 6 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. ###### 7 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. ###### 8 8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. ###### 9 9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. ###### 10 10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. ###### 11 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. ###### 12 12 They 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. ###### 13 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. ###### 14 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. ###### 15 15 For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. ###### 16 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. ###### 17 17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. ###### 18 18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. ###### 19 19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. ###### 20 20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. ###### 21 21 Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me. ###### 22 22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.