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Psalms 38

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1O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. ✦ 2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. ✦ 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. ✦ 4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ✦ 5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. ✦ 6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. ✦ 7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. ✦ 8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. ✦ 9Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. ✦ 10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. ✦ 11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. ✦ 12They 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. ✦ 13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. ✦ 14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. ✦ 15For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. ✦ 16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. ✦ 17For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. ✦ 18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. ✦ 19But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. ✦ 20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. ✦ 21Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. ✦ 22Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 35 ·8Ps 6 ·6Isa 53 ·5Ps 102 ·5Ps 22 ·5Ps 88 ·5Ps 39 ·4Ps 31 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 38 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 38David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 38Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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