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Psalms 38

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1O Lord, don’t rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your rage! ✦ 2Your arrows have struck deep, and your blows are crushing me. ✦ 3Because of your anger, my whole body is sick; my health is broken because of my sins. ✦ 4My guilt overwhelms me— it is a burden too heavy to bear. ✦ 5My wounds fester and stink because of my foolish sins. ✦ 6I am bent over and racked with pain. All day long I walk around filled with grief. ✦ 7A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken. ✦ 8I am exhausted and completely crushed. My groans come from an anguished heart. ✦ 9You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh. ✦ 10My heart beats wildly, my strength fails, and I am going blind. ✦ 11My loved ones and friends stay away, fearing my disease. Even my own family stands at a distance. ✦ 12Meanwhile, my enemies lay traps to kill me. Those who wish me harm make plans to ruin me. All day long they plan their treachery. ✦ 13But I am deaf to all their threats. I am silent before them as one who cannot speak. ✦ 14I choose to hear nothing, and I make no reply. ✦ 15For I am waiting for you, O Lord. You must answer for me, O Lord my God. ✦ 16I prayed, “Don’t let my enemies gloat over me or rejoice at my downfall.” ✦ 17I am on the verge of collapse, facing constant pain. ✦ 18But I confess my sins; I am deeply sorry for what I have done. ✦ 19I have many aggressive enemies; they hate me without reason. ✦ 20They repay me evil for good and oppose me for pursuing good. ✦ 21Do not abandon me, O Lord. Do not stand at a distance, my God. ✦ 22Come quickly to help me, O Lord my savior. ✦

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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.

Commentaries & study tools

  • 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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