Psalms 38 — Novel English Bible

1 Yahawah (), don't yakach (rebuke) me in your qatzap (wrath), neither yasar (chasten) me in your chamah (hot) displeasure.

2 For your chatz (arrows) have pierced me, your yad (hand) presses hard on me.

3 There is no matham (soundness) in my bashar (flesh) panayam (face) of your zaim (indignation), neither is there any shalawam (peace / safety) in my itzam (bones) panayam (face) of my chataah (sin).

4 For my iwan (guilt/iniquity) ibar (pass over/through) gone over my raash (head). As a kabad (heavy) mashaa (burden), they are too kabad (heavy) for me.

5 My chabawarah (wounds) are baash (loathsome) and maqaq (corrupt), panayam (face) of my awalath (foolishness).

6 I am pained and shachach (bowed) down maad (greatly). I halak (move) qadar (mourning) all yawam (day) long.

7 For my waist is malaa (filled) with burning. There is no matham (soundness) in my bashar (flesh).

8 I am pawag (faint) and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my lab (heart).

9 Adanay (), all my thaawah (desire) is before you. My anachah (groaning) is not sathar (hidden) from you.

10 My lab (heart) throbs. My kach (strength / mighty / power) izab (fails) me. As for the awar (light) of my iyan (eye), it has also left me.

11 My lovers and my rai (neigbor/another person) imad (stand) nagad (aloof) from my nagai (plague). My kinsmen imad (stand) rachawaq (far) away.

12 They also who baqash (seek) after my napash (soul) lay yanaqashaw (snares). Those who darash (seek) my rai (hurt) dabar (word / matter) hawah (calamity / destruction) things, and hagah (meditate) maramawath (deceits) all yawam (day) long.

13 But I, as a charash (deaf) man, don't shamai (hearken / hear). I am as a mute alam (man) who doesn't pathach (open) his pah (mouth).

14 Yes, I am as a ayash (man / husband) who doesn't shamai (hearken / hear), in whose pah (mouth) are no thawakachawath (reproofs).

15 For in you, Yahawah (), do I yachal (hope). You will inah (answer / respond), Adanay () my Alahayam ().

16 For I amar (said), “Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my ragal (feet / foot) mawat (slips).”

17 For I am kawan (ready) to fall. My makaab (pain) is continually before me.

18 For I will nagad (declare) my iwan (guilt/iniquity). I will be daag (sorry) for my chataah (sin).

19 But my ayab (enemy) are vigorous and many. Those who shanaa (hate) me shaqar (without) reason are numerous.

20 They who also shalam (render) rai (evil) for tawab (good / proper function) are shatan (adversaries) to me, because I radap (follow) what is tawab (good / proper function).

21 Don't izab (forsake) me, Yahawah (). My Alahayam (), don't be rachaq (far) from me.

22 Hurry to izarah (help) me, Adanay (), my thashawaih (deliverance).